1st Edition
Localised Technological Change Towards the Economics of Complexity
By Cristiano Antonelli
Copyright 2008
432 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
432 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 can inform our understanding of the economics of... Read more
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
Biography
Cristiano Antonelli
