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Economic emergence: An evolutionary economic perspective

Foster, John; Metcalfe, J. Stan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 420-432

The standard neoclassical approach to economic theorising excludes, by definition, economic emergence and the related phenomenon of entrepreneurship. We explore how the most economic of human behaviours, entrepreneurship, came to be largely excluded from mainstream economic theory. In contrast,...

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Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology

Bessen, James - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 2, pp. 443-469

Using two panels of U.S. manufacturing industries, this paper estimates capital adjustment costs from 1961 to 1996. I find that from 1974-83 adjustment costs rose sharply --they more that doubled from about 3% of output to around 7%. Moreover, this increase is specifically associated with a...

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The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s <Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">The Institutional Revolution

Mokyr, Joel; Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 375-381

premodern world and to show why they changed. His argument is that in a Principal-Agent situation, before the Industrial … acts of the agent, hence the “strange” institutions. In a modern world, with a much improved monitoring technology, we can …

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Technological unemployment in industrial countries

Feldmann, Horst - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 5, pp. 1099-1126

Using annual data on 21 industrial countries from the period 1985 to 2009 and a large number of controls, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of technological change on unemployment. As proxy for technological change, it uses the ratio of triadic patent families to population. According...

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Emergence and evolution of new industries: The path-dependent dynamics of knowledge creation. An introduction to the special section

Krafft, Jackie; Lechevalier, Sebastien; Quatraro, Francesco - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 10, pp. 1663-1665

In this introduction, we review the arguments that underpin the rationale for the special section, and provide a structured sequence for the contents of the six selected papers that comprise the section.

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Foreign multinationals and domestic innovation: Intra-industry effects and firm heterogeneity

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Iammarino, Simona - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 3, pp. 596-609

This paper looks at foreign Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) investing in the UK and at their impact on the innovation …-level information the paper develops a direct measure of capital inflows at a three-digit industry level. In order to capture innovation … Innovation Survey (CIS). The results suggest that domestic firms active in sectors with greater investments by MNEs show a …

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Corporate Governance and the Governance of Innovation: the Case of Pharmaceutical Industry

Lacetera, Nicola - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2000

literature on firm's boundaries and sectoral systems of innovation, we propose industry-specific variables for pharmaceuticals …

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

DAVIS, LEWIS S.; ŞENER, FUAT - In: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy … 03 (2012) 01, pp. 1240005-1

threats of profit loss due to imitation and complete valuation loss due to outside innovation. We disaggregate IPR policies by …

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Building the Economics of Knowledge: A Roadmap

Link, Albert N.; antonelli, cristiano - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013

This paper is the Introduction to Recent Developments in the Economics of Science and Innovation (Edward Elgar, 2014 …

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