'This is an original and very well structured and informative book. Its particular interest stems from the multidimensional and detailed analysis of a set of core technologies and their uneven diffusion process in eight countries of quite different levels of development. It challenges received...

he economic concept of networks refers to the structure of agents` interaction as well as to the economic property of positive externalities. This book describes the economics of networks from various perspectives among which are¤ classical approaches, methods derived from physics, theory of...