topics innovation, catch-up, and sustainability. Innovation is driving catch-up processes and is the condition for a … dynamics, heterogeneity, novelty, and innovation as well as transformation are the most attractive fields in economics today … better understanding of innovation, catch-up, and sustainability, and Schumpeterian economics in general. …

here remain the cornerstone of a useful theory of innovation and change even in our current complex sociotechnical …This chapter is about radical innovation and disruptive technological change. Discovering the nature and mechanisms of … disruptive technological change can help to understand the long-run dynamics of innovation and map profound transformation in …

-based policies and academic growth theory (Solow 1956 and 1957; Romer 1990), and some of the rhetoric surrounding them (Part II … course of tracing this historical development, a simple but significant inconsistency between microeconomic theory and …

how dependent innovation is on economic growth and what effects a potential long-term economic stagnation or decline may … have on innovation processes and systems. We approach the subject from different angles using mixed methods. First, we … present a quantitative analysis of the linkages between economic growth and innovation activities on a sectoral level, based …