Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry

by John Hendry

British researchers have been among the world's leaders in scientific discovery and invention, but British business has repeatedly failed to exploit these discoveries. This history of the early British computer industry provides a case study in the implementation of public innovation policy, offering lessons for any country trying to compete for sales in international high-technology markets. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

260 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12, 1990

About the author

John Hendry is a writer, teacher and academic. He has spent much of his career working in and managing business schools and writing about the practice of management and business and financial ethics, but has also had a parallel life as a historian and philosopher of science and a historian of contemporary Britain. His most recent books focus on the art (and joys) of managing, on the ethical problems besetting the financial sector, and on the power and limitations of reason. John is a Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge, and an Emeritus Professor at Henley Business School.