This book brings together a range of sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process. It begins with a broad conceptual overview of ways that the sociological and economics literatures address issues of innovation, demand, and consumption. It goes on to offer different approaches to the economics of demand and innovation through an evolutionary framework, before reviewing how consumption fits into evolutionary models of economic development.
Andrew McMeekin and Mark Tomlinson are lecturers based at CRIC (Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition), the University of Manchester and UMIST.
Ken Green and Vivien Walsh are lecturers at Manchester School of Management, UMIST.