concerning the nature and structure of technological knowledge, the sources of novel opportunities, the dynamics through which … diffusion affect growth and survival probabilities of heterogeneous firms. The processes of knowledge accumulation and diffusion … cycles influence the patterns of industrial organization—including size distributions, degrees of concentration, relative …

knowledge at all times in a serendipitous way, the industrial revolution is an inevitable outcome. The paper characterizes the …

revolution through entrepreneurs’ role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture …

knowledge protected by secrecy, patents and other appropriability devices. To explore the macroeconomic implications of this … knowledge variety yield increasing returns to the number of firms. A large number of firms leads to high output, high (aggregate …

hump-shaped relationships of knowledge appropriability and the number of firms with steady-state growth that give a first … supply and knowledge spillovers yield increasing returns to the number of firms. A larger number of firms leads to higher …

The industrial society has become history, substituted by the service economy, the knowledge economy or the information …