1st Edition

Innovation and Economic Development A Microeconomic Perspective

By Jon-Arild Johannessen Copyright 2026
146 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

146 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Microeconomic theorists have largely excluded entrepreneurship and innovation from their theoretical analyses and models. In the existing literature, innovative entrepreneurs are hardly mentioned at all, yet it is precisely these entrepreneurs who, through their establishment of innovation-based start-ups, for example, start-ups based on technological innovations, create economic growth and help... Read more

1. The Innovation Economy: An introduction 2. Innovative entrepreneurship and microeconomic theory in the innovation economy 3. Competence and microeconomic theory in the innovation economy 4. Productivity 5. Automation

Biography

Jon-Arild Johannessen is a Professor at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway.