Abstract: Drawing on McCraw's (2007) biography, this paper assesses the character of Joseph Schumpeter. After a biographical summary of Schumpeter's life and career as an economist, the paper considers a thread of deliberate posturing and pretense in Schumpeter's grandiose ambitions and claims...

I denna uppsats visas att Dahmén redan 1939 hade kommit fram till den grundläggande transformationsteoretiska syn han redovisade i sin licentiat avhandling av 1942. I en djuplodande analys av felinvesteringarnas roll i långsiktiga utvecklingsförlopp grundlade Dahmén 1939 för det...

During the last two decades we have seen a revival of interest in the works of Joseph Schumpeter and “evolutionary” ideas in economics more generally. A professional society honouring Schumpeter's name has been founded, and linked to it we have had for more than fifteen years now a...

This article is based upon a review of the recent book edited by C. Edquist. This book presents different articles that have the development of the Systems of Innovation Approach as a common objective. This multidisciplinary approach proposes new foundations in order to build a global theory of...

Commentators have poured forth a loud and sustained outcry over the past few years that sees property rule treatment of intellectual property (IP) as a cause of excessive transaction costs, thickets, anticommons, hold-ups, hold-outs, and trolls, which unduly tax and retard innovation,...

The aim of the article is an identification of key sources of an innovative character and their conditioning in contemporary Polish economy. In the discussion, it is stated that consumers - the smallest, but the most numerous economic unit - through their expectations of the way / form of...

The aim of the article is an identification of key sources of an innovative character and their conditioning in contemporary Polish economy. In the discussion, it is stated that consumers – the smallest, but the most numerous economic unit – through their expectations of the way / form of...