Microdynamics of Technological Change / Edition 1

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

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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