Localised Technological Change: Towards the Economics of Complexity
The extent to which firms can react creatively to rather than adjust passively against new techniques and practices is dependent on their command of technological knowledge and relative competence. This book explores the characteristics of the path dependent dynamics of localized technological change, demonstrating how the economics of complexity c
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Localised Technological Change: Towards the Economics of Complexity
The extent to which firms can react creatively to rather than adjust passively against new techniques and practices is dependent on their command of technological knowledge and relative competence. This book explores the characteristics of the path dependent dynamics of localized technological change, demonstrating how the economics of complexity c
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Localised Technological Change: Towards the Economics of Complexity

Localised Technological Change: Towards the Economics of Complexity

by Cristiano Antonelli
Localised Technological Change: Towards the Economics of Complexity

Localised Technological Change: Towards the Economics of Complexity

by Cristiano Antonelli

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The extent to which firms can react creatively to rather than adjust passively against new techniques and practices is dependent on their command of technological knowledge and relative competence. This book explores the characteristics of the path dependent dynamics of localized technological change, demonstrating how the economics of complexity c

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134091171
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/31/2008
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 432
File size: 958 KB

About the Author

Cristiano Antonelli

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part 1: The Ingredients 2. The Classical Legacy: Smith, Marx and Schumpeter3. Localized Technological Change: A Critical Assessment Part 2: The Governance of Localized Technological Knowledge 4. Models of Knowledge and Systems of Governance5. The New Dimensions of Knowledge Indivisibility: Cumulability, Compositeness, Fungeability and Stickiness 6. Knowledge and the Theory of the Firm: The Interdependence Among Transaction, Coordination and Production7. Technological Knowledge and the Theory of the Firm: Idiosyncratic Path Dependence and the Quest for an Economics of Distinctive Competences8. To Use or to Sell Technological Knowledge9. The Governance of Localized Knowledge10. The Economics of University: A Knowledge Governance Approach11. Towards Non-Exclusive Property Rights: Knowledge as an Essential Facility Part 3: The Introduction of Localized Technological Change 12. Localized Technological Change: The Benchmark13. The System Dynamics of Collective Knowledge: From Gradualism and Saltationism to Punctuated Change14. Localized Technological Change and Factor Markets: Constraints and Inducements to Innovation15. Localized Product Innovation: The Role of Proximity in the Lancastrian Product Space16. Diffusion as a Process of Creative Adoption17. Path Dependence and the Quest for Complex Dynamics18. Conclusion: Hysteresis and Creativity
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