The assumption of given consumer tastes and production, loses ground very rapidly in information-intensive economic systems, where the ability to design products and services combinations for increasingly specific needs and skills is a key variable to competition. This article presents a...

[eng] Informatisation is not just another version of the general tendency towards automation. The progressive introduction of information technology enable firms to adjust better to technical and economic environment changes. While flexibilite is essentially a reaction to high uncertainty...

Technological progress as a major source of economic development stems from the interaction of two types of innovations, drastic and incremental. While the former sets the fundamental pace of economic progress by redefining production possibilities as Schumpeter strongly emphasized, the latter...

Following our previous study that established the concept of limited technology transferability, this paper analyses the equilibrium outcomes of two forms of research joint ventures (RJVs). The marginal analysis shows that market equilibria of perfect and imperfect RJVs result in a socially...

[eng] The recent renewal of the evolutionary approach in economics is an occasion to check the potential contribution of the natural selection analogy to economics in general and to the theory of innovation in particular. After stating the initial and controversial positions the author analyzes...