The new evidence provided by the codification of intangible assets in national accounts and firm statistics offers the opportunity to test the Schumpeterian creative response hypothesis that: i) the generation and exploitation of knowledge are characterized by high levels of risk; ii) firms in...

This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...