Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change
Title | Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change PDF eBook |
Author | Cristiano Antonelli |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0857930370 |
This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and Marshallian legacies. The Handbook elaborates the notion of innovation as an emerging property of the organized complexity of an economic system, and provides the basic tools to understand the recursive dynamics between the emergence of innovation and the unfolding of organized complexity. In so doing, it highlights the role of organizational thinking in explaining the introduction of innovations and the dynamics of structural change. With a new methodological approach to the economics of technological change, this wide-ranging volume will become the standard reference for postgraduates, academics and practitioners in the fields of evolutionary economics, complexity economics and the economics of innovation.
Handbook of the Economics of Innovations and Technological Change
Title | Handbook of the Economics of Innovations and Technological Change PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Stoneman |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 583 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780631177739 |
This volume presents the first comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview of current knowledge in the Economics of Technological Change. It both reviews what is known and accepted as the best thinking in the field and sets the agenda for research in the future by taking the reader to the boundaries of the subject.
Localised Technological Change
Title | Localised Technological Change PDF eBook |
Author | Cristiano Antonelli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2008-01-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134091184 |
Pt. 1. The ingredients -- pt. 2. The governance of localised technological knowledge -- pt. 3. The introduction of localised technological change.
The Economics of Localized Technological Change and Industrial Dynamics
Title | The Economics of Localized Technological Change and Industrial Dynamics PDF eBook |
Author | Cristiano Antonelli |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9401105057 |
The concept of localized technological change is emerging at the crossroads of different approaches to the economics of innovation and new technologies. The term `localized technological change' refers to the introduction of technological changes which make possible an increase in total factor productivity within only a limited range of techniques defined by the levels of factor intensity. This contrasts with `generalized technological change', which is defined as the global shift of all the techniques represented on the map of isoquants of the neoclassical tradition. The Economics of Localized Technological Change elaborates the notion of localized technology with respect to firms, factor substitution, sectors, regions and techniques. It also assesses the implications for industrial policy, technology and innovation policy. The book will be of interest to corporate policy makers, scholars of industrial organization and economics of innovation as well as business school students.
The Atlas of Economic Complexity
Title | The Atlas of Economic Complexity PDF eBook |
Author | Ricardo Hausmann |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2014-01-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0262317737 |
Maps capture data expressing the economic complexity of countries from Albania to Zimbabwe, offering current economic measures and as well as a guide to achieving prosperity Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society's productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more complex products. The Atlas of Economic Complexity attempts to measure the amount of productive knowledge countries hold and how they can move to accumulate more of it by making more complex products. Through the graphical representation of the "Product Space," the authors are able to identify each country's "adjacent possible," or potential new products, making it easier to find paths to economic diversification and growth. In addition, they argue that a country's economic complexity and its position in the product space are better predictors of economic growth than many other well-known development indicators, including measures of competitiveness, governance, finance, and schooling. Using innovative visualizations, the book locates each country in the product space, provides complexity and growth potential rankings for 128 countries, and offers individual country pages with detailed information about a country's current capabilities and its diversification options. The maps and visualizations included in the Atlas can be used to find more viable paths to greater productive knowledge and prosperity.
Handbook of the Economics of Innovations and Technological Change
Title | Handbook of the Economics of Innovations and Technological Change PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Stoneman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 583 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Technological innovations |
ISBN |
This volume presents the first comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview of current knowledge in the Economics of Technological Change. It both reviews what is known and accepted as the best thinking in the field and sets the agenda for research in the future by taking the reader to the boundaries of the subject. Each major topic is surveyed by a leading international expert in the field and the articles are specifically designed to be both rigorous and accessible. The quality and range of the contributions has ensured that the book is unique in covering the field in all its various dimensions whilst achieving the depth of analysis needed in each. For those in the fields of the Economics of Technological Change, Industrial Organization and Science and Technology Policy this book will be an essential text and reference. The material will be invaluable and accessible to students and researchers as well as those working or setting policy in these fields.
Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Knowledge
Title | Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Cristiano Antonelli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2014-12-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136178643 |
The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Knowledge provides a comprehensive framework to integrate the advancements over the last 20 years in the analysis of technological knowledge as an economic good, and in the static and dynamic characteristics of its generation process. There is a growing consensus in the field of economics that knowledge, technological knowledge in particular, is one of the most relevant resources of wealth, yet it is one of the most difficult and complex activities to understand or even to conceptualize. The economics of knowledge is an emerging field that explores the generation, exploitation, and dissemination of technological knowledge. Technological knowledge cannot any longer be regarded as a homogenous good that stems from standardized generation processes. Quite the opposite, technological knowledge appears more and more to be a basket of heterogeneous items, resources, and even experiences. All of these sources, which are both internal and external to the firm, are complementary, as is the interplay between a bottom-up and top-down generation processes. In this context, the interactions between the public research system, private research laboratories, and various networks of learning processes, within and among firms, play a major role in the creation of technological knowledge. In this Handbook special attention is given to the relationship among technological knowledge and both upstream scientific knowledge and related downstream resources. By addressing the antecedents and consequences of technological knowledge from both an upstream and downstream perspective, this Handbook will become an indispensable tool for scholars and practitioners aiming to master the generation and the use of technological knowledge.