This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall’s view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into...

The assumption of given consumer tastes and production, loses ground very rapidly in information-intensive economic systems, where the ability to design products and services combinations for increasingly specific needs and skills is a key variable to competition. This article presents a...

Following our previous study that established the concept of limited technology transferability, this paper analyses the equilibrium outcomes of two forms of research joint ventures (RJVs). The marginal analysis shows that market equilibria of perfect and imperfect RJVs result in a socially...

Technological progress as a major source of economic development stems from the interaction of two types of innovations, drastic and incremental. While the former sets the fundamental pace of economic progress by redefining production possibilities as Schumpeter strongly emphasized, the latter...

[fre] C'est l'exigence de l'efficience du dispositif matériel qui est également la source de l'irréversibilité fondamentale de l'évolution technologique. Une fois appréhendée dans ses dimensions allocatives et cumulatives, la prise en compte de l'irréversibilité permet d'approfondir la...