relation to the innovation process and its outcomes. This theme is firmly rooted in the Schumpeterian tradition in which an …

Recent developments in economics have gone from the recognition of the importance of innovation for growth and the … exploration of innovation mechanisms to the incorporation of the results of the previous research into economic models. An … mechanisms of innovation creation and diffusion, the importance of agent heterogeneity, of market selection processes, of the …

literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …

analysis with evidence on innovation slowdown trends, looking at aggregate and compositional trends. We explore the innovation … occurrence. Eventually, we relate productivity and innovation slowdowns deriving tables of trends co-movements, weighted by input …