Handbook of the economics of innovation ; 1

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Front Cover; Handbook of The Economics of Innovation; Copyright Page; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Part I: Introduction and Overview; Chapter 1: Introduction to the Handbook; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2: The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change: 1750-1914; 1. Introduction: Technology and economic modernity; 2. Technology in a ``Malthusian economy´´; 3. The first Industrial Revolution: A new approach; 4. The transition to modern growth, 1830-1880; 5. The second Industrial Revolution; 6. A suggested interpretation

ReferencesChapter 3: Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes; 1. Introduction; 2. On the nature of ``technology´´; 2.1. Technology and information; 2.2. Technologies as recipes; 2.3. Technologies as routines; 2.4. Technologies as artifacts; 2.5. Knowledge, procedures, and input/output relations; 3. How technologies evolve; 3.1. Technological paradigms and technological trajectories; 3.2. Technological opportunities, the processes of knowledge accumulation, and their cumulativeness

3.3. Demand and other socioeconomic factors shaping the direction of technological advance3.4. Means of appropriation; 3.5. Technological advance and the theory of the firm; 3.6. The dynamic of productive knowledge, and the dynamics of production coefficients; 3.7. Technological regimes: Sectoral specificities in patterns of technological advance, and the characteristics of innovative actors; 3.8. Formal models of search and technological evolution; 3.9. Invention, innovation, and diffusion; 3.10. The path dependence of the processes of technological evolution

4. Schumpeterian competition and industrial dynamics4.1. Microeconomic heterogeneity: Size, to begin with; 4.2. Corporate growth rates and corporate profitabilities; 4.3. Behind heterogeneous performances: Innovation and production efficiency; 4.4. Corporate capabilities, competition, and industrial change; 4.5. Industry-specific dynamics and industry life cycles; 4.6. Models of industrial dynamics; 5. Innovation, industrial evolution, and economic growth: Some conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4: Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance

1. Introduction2. Empirical studies in the Schumpeterian tradition; 2.1. Firm size and innovation; 2.2. Monopoly and innovation; 2.2.1. Market structure, innovation, and industry dynamics; 2.3. Evaluation of empirical research in the Schumpeterian tradition; 2.3.1. Firm size and innovation; 2.3.2. Market structure and innovation; 2.3.3. Crosscutting considerations; 3. Firm characteristics; 4. Industry characteristics; 4.1. Demand; 4.2. Technological opportunity; 4.3. Appropriability; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Invention and innovation

Chapter 5: The Economics of Science

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