) evolutionary approach of industrial processes and changes that are embedded in the systems of innovation approach. The aim of this …

We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant … innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new … technology. However, we also expect that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often …

this context, our article reviews the evidence of Luigi Orsenigo’s contribution to the economics of innovation, to the … conditions, and cumulativeness in these emerging industries. Rooted in the evolutionary economics tradition, this approach is … better suited in explaining the patterns of innovation, technological change, and the growth in very dynamic industries. In …