The innovation is a main variable of the economic growth, but the origin and diffusion of innovations are functions of … economic thought and the development of the economics of innovation. This research shows as, since 1957 the patterns of …

This paper presents the origins of the Economics of innovation describing the economic thought of the economists in the … which are relevant, put forward the basis of the modern discipline of the Economics of innovation. …

Nowadays the innovation is one of the most important determinant for increasing the wealth of the nations. The patterns … of technological innovation are studied by Economics of innovation. The aim of this paper is to prove that the origins of … the Economics of innovation go back to many years before Schumpeter’s theory (1911), thank to the original studies of Rae …