Economics of Innovation
Lerner, J. (2012). The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN: 978-1422143636 (Selected Chapters)
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Dobbs, R., Manyika, J., and Woetzel, J. (2015). No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking all the Trends. Public Affairs. ISBN: 978-1610395793 (Selected Chapters)
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Christensen, C. (2016). The Innovator's Dilemma. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN: 978-1633691780
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Seelig, T. (2015). InsightOut: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World. Harper One. ISBN: 978-0062301277 (Selected Chapters)
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Isaacson, Walter (2015). The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon and Schuster. (Selected Chapters)
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Hall, Bronwyn and Rosenberg, Nathan (2010). Handbook of the Economics of Innovation. North Holland. (Selected Chapters)
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Podcasts
The EntreLeadership Podcast (Link)
Hosted by Ken Coleman, the EntreLeadership Podcast features lively discussions and tips on leadership and business by some of the top minds in the business, like Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Jim Collins and Simon Sinek.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (Link)
The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering.
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman (Link)
How do companies grow from zero to a gazillion? Legendary Silicon Valley investor / entrepreneur Reid Hoffman tests his theories with famous founders. Guests include Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg, Netflix’s Reed Hastings, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Spanx's Sara Blakely. With original music and hilariously honest stories, the show sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard. Masters of Scale is a WaitWhat original series in association with Stitcher.
Hosted by Ken Coleman, the EntreLeadership Podcast features lively discussions and tips on leadership and business by some of the top minds in the business, like Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Jim Collins and Simon Sinek.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (Link)
The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering.
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman (Link)
How do companies grow from zero to a gazillion? Legendary Silicon Valley investor / entrepreneur Reid Hoffman tests his theories with famous founders. Guests include Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg, Netflix’s Reed Hastings, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Spanx's Sara Blakely. With original music and hilariously honest stories, the show sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard. Masters of Scale is a WaitWhat original series in association with Stitcher.
Topic 1: Theoretical Foundations of Economics and Innovation
- Mokyr, Joel (2010). “The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change: 1750 – 1914,” Handbook of the Economics of Innovation Volume 2: 11 – 50.
- Schumpeter, Joseph (1942). Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. Selected Chapters
- Jones, C. and Vollrath, D. (2013). Introduction to Economic Growth. W.W. Norton and Company. Selected Chapters
- Romer, Paul M. 1990. “Endogenous Technological Change.” Journal of Political Economy 98 (5): S71-S102. (Paper)
- Todaro, M. and Smith, S. (2012). Economic Development. Boston: Addison-Wesley. Chapter 3: Classic Theories of Economic Growth. (Slides)
Topic 2: Technological Periods and Intellectual Property
- Mokyr, Joel (2009). “Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth.” The American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-First Meeting of the American Economic Association, 99 (2): 349-355.
- Jones, C. and Vollrath, D. (2013). Introduction to Economic Growth. W.W. Norton and Company. Selected Chapters
- Breschi, S., Malerba, F., and Orsenigo, M. (2000). "Technological Regimes and Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation." The Economic Journal, 110 (463): 388-410. (Slides)
- Rosenberg, Nathan. 1979. “Technological Interdependence in the American Economy.” Technology and Culture 20 (1): 25-50.
- Blinder, Alan (2006). “Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?,” Foreign Affairs, 85 (2):113-128.
Topic 3: The Micro View: Entrepreneurship, R&D, and Firm Productivity
- Bessant, J. and Tidd, J. (2018). Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Wiley: United Kingdom). Selected Chapters.
- Parker, S. (2005). “The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don’t,”Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 1(1), 1-54.
- Parker, S. (2009). Economics of Entrepreneurship (Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge). Selected Chapters. (Slides-Intro) (Slides-Chapter 2)
- Dorf, R. and Byers, T. (2005). Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (McGraw-Hill: New York, NY). Selected Chapters.
- Lerner, J. (2012). The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations (Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, MA). Selected Chapters. (Chapter 3 Slides)
- Seelig, T. (2015). InsightOut: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World. Harper One. Selected Chapters
- Jones, Benjamin F. 2009. “The Burden of Knowledge and the ‛ Death of the Renaissance Man’: Is Innovation Getting Harder?” Review of Economic Studies 76 (1): 283-317.
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Topic 4: The Macro View - Transformative Innovation in the Global Economy
- Dobbs, R., Manyika, J., and Woetzel, J. (2015). No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking all the Trends. Philadelphia, PA: Public Affairs. Selected Chapters
- Das, G.G. (2015). “Why Some Countries are Slow in Acquiring New Technologies,” Journal of Policy Modeling, 37, 65-91.
- Fagerberg, J., Srholec, M., and Verspagen, B. (2010). “Innovation and Economic Development.” In B. Hall and N. Rosenberg (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Innovation (2nd edition, pp. 833-872). Boston, MA: Elsevier.
- Keller, W. (2010). “International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers.” In B. Hall and N. Rosenberg (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Innovation (2nd edition, pp. 793-829). Boston, MA: Elsevier.
- McNeil, L. and Fraumeni, B. (2005). "International Trade and Economic Growth." Bureau of Economic Analysis, Working Paper 2005-03.
- UNCTAD (2015). Technology and Innovation Report 2015: Fostering Innovation Policies for Industrial Development. United Nations: Geneva. Selected Chapters.

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Topic 5: Case Studies in Innovation
- Isaacson, Walter (2015). Steve Jobs. Simon and Schuster. (Selected Chapters)
- Isaacson, Walter (2015). The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon and Schuster. (Selected Chapters)