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Noel Annan |
The Dons - Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses |
Engaging insider account of the personalities behind UK universities since the 18th century |
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Philip Augur |
The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism: the Rise and Fall of London's Investment Banks |
From the old-boy network to the modern financial powerhouse, what was lost and what it tells us about Britain today. |
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William Baumol |
The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism |
Does what it says on the tin; the difference between invention and innovation and why it matters to civilization |
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Philip Bernstein |
Capital Ideas - The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street |
A first hand account of how finance theory moved from academia to Wall Street and beyond. |
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Amar Bhide |
The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses |
Pioneering account of start-ups and taxonomy of entrepreneurship. |
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David Connell |
'Secrets' of the world's largest seed capital fund |
How the United States Government uses its SBIT programme and procurement budets to support small technology firms |
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R Coopey and Donald Clarke |
3i - Fifty Years Investing in Industry |
The story of the firm behind the first wave of the UK venture industry |
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Henry Etzkowitz |
MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science |
How a leading science institution pioneered the transfer of research and became an international role model. |
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Udayan Gupta |
Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell their Stories |
Oral history of venture as it emerges in the US. |
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Gordon Johnson |
University Politics |
Text and context of Francis Cornford's advice given to young academic politicians |
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Clark Kerr |
The Uses of the University |
Worldly lectures on higher education from the former head of the California system. |
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John Maynard Keynes |
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
Beatifully written if no longer compelling account by a legendary polymath |
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Israel Kirzner |
Competition and Entrepreneurship |
Between neoclassical and Schumpeterian analysis |
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Frank H Knight |
Risk, Uncertainty and Profit |
Pre-war classic of the Chicago School |
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Bernard Levin |
The Pendulum Years - Britain and the Sixties |
In case you can't remember. |
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Geoffrey Moore |
Crossing the Chasm |
Pioneering analysis of marketing disruptive products to mainstream consumers |
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Geoffrey Owen |
From Empire to Europe - the decline and revival of British Industry since the Second World War |
Crisp survey of Britain's difficult transformation by former editor of the FT. |
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R S Rosenbloom and William J Spencer |
Engines of innovation: US Industrial Research at the End of an Era |
How research and commercialisation models changed over the later 20th century |
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Anthony Sampson |
Who Runs This Place? |
Forty years on for the famous anatomiser of Britain |
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Michael Shanks |
The Innovators: the Economics of Technology |
Where Britain went wrong, by one of those navigating |
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Francis Spufford |
The Backroom Boys |
Ripping yarn of British technology achievements |
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Robert Stevens |
From University to Uni |
No-holds-barred account of how policy makers almost destroyed the jewels in the British educational crown |
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Richard Symonds |
Oxford and Empire - the last lost cause? |
Classicism and Cecil Rhodes and the impact of education on empire |
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Jean Tirole |
The Theory of Corporate Finance |
Lucid, comprehensive textbook with clear context for technical sections |
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Martin Vander Weyer |
Falling Eagle - the Decline of Barclays Bank |
Insight into how big banks make major mistakes and still keep going |
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D H Whittaker |
Small Firms in the Japanese Economy |
How small firms matter to Japan but are underserved by policy |
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Martin Wiener |
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit 1850-1980 |
Britain was first into the Industrial Revolution; why did it go wrong during the 20th Century? |
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Joseph A Schumpeter |
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy |
Classic social theory by one of the economists responsible for the 20th century rehabilitation of entrepreneurs |
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David Gill, Chris Martin, Tim Minshall & Martin Rigby |
Funding Technology: Lessons from America |
Analysis of the funding of technology businesses in the USA - written at the height of the internet boom |
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David Gill, Tim Minshall, Martin Rigby & Bob Campbell |
Funding Technology: Israel and the Virtues of Necessity |
How is it that Israel is so often cited as the second most entrepreneurial economy in the world when its population is smaller than Scotland's |
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David Gill, Tim Minshall & Martin Rigby |
Funding Technology: Germany - Better by Design? |
Has state intervention or the newly privatised savings banks transformed the financing of growth business in Germany? |
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David Gill, Tim Minshall, Craig Pickering & Martin Rigby |
Funding Technology: Britain Forty Years On |
Forty Years after Harold Wilson talked of Britain's economy needing to be "forged in the white heat of technology", has that vision come true? |
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