Microdynamics of Technological Change

by Cristiano Antonelli

Overview

This volume presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of the emerging information and communication technologies associated with a knowledge-based economy, and looks at how knowledge is increasingly treated as a product in its own right.
An original framework is developed to comprehend these fundamental shifts, based on three bodies of knowledge:
* the economics of path dependence and of historical time as they are elaborated in the economics of new technologies
* economic topology based on the methodology of network analysis
* the new economics of knowledge and the concept of localized technological change
This book provides a unified analytical framework for the study of the transition of advanced economic systems towards a knowledge-based economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415190527
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/04/1999
Series:	Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy , #23
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Cristiano Antonelli is Professor and Chair of Economics in the School of Communication of the University of Turin, where he organises the Economics of Innovation Laboratory. He is also managing editor of the journal Economics of Innovation and New Technology and has published widely in the field of the economics of innovation.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction, Part 1: The Theory, II. Path-Dependance in Industrial Economics and the Economics of Innovation, III. The New Economics of Knowledge, IV. The Dyamics of Localized Technological Changes. The Interaction Between Factor Costs-Inducement, Demand Pull and Schumpeterin Rivalry, V. Localized and Technological Change and Schumpeterian Growth Regimes, VI. Econcomic Topology: The Role of Technological Externalities in the Dynamics of Localized Technological Change, Part 2: Applications, VII. Localized Technological Changes in Telecommunications and the Networks of Networks, VIII. Localized Technollogical Change and Unemployment in the Global Ecocnomy: A Schumpeterian Approach, IX. New Information Technology and the Evolution of the Organization of Knowledge Production, X. The Dynamics of Technological Externalities and the Evolution of Technological Co-operation, XI. The Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions, XII. New Information Technology and the Knowledge Based Economy. The European Evidence, XIII. Conclusion, XIV. Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

' ... the book is very stimulating in its attempts of combining the Schumpeterian approach to innovation, structural change and growth, with the Marshallian partial-equilibrium analytical framework.' - Rinaldo Evangelista, Technovation

'It represents a rare (and much needed) attempt of treating with analytical rigour and theoretical depth the multidimensional nature of technological change and its micro-macro economic domains ... ' - Rinaldo Evangelista, Technovation

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