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