The collaborative innovation bloc: A new mission for Austrian economics

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We argue that scholars in the Austrian tradition of economics should incorporate the notion of a collaborative innovation bloc into their study of spontaneous market order. We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on an innovation bloc of this kind, a system of innovation that evolves and within which activity takes place through time. The innovation bloc consists of five pools of economic skills from which people are drawn or recruited to form part of a collaborative team, which is necessary if innovation-based venturing is to flourish. The five skills are entrepreneurs, early- and later-stage-financiers, key personnel, and customers. Through real-world examples, we show how the application of the collaborative innovation bloc perspective could help make Austrian economics more concrete, relevant and persuasive, especially in regard to policy prescriptions.​

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1222

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Austrian ; Production and Organizations: General ; Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill ; Organization of Production ; Entrepreneurship ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: Austrian Economics ; Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Schumpeterian entrepreneurship ; Spontaneous order

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Elert, Niklas ; Henrekson, Magnus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/183451
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET