This paper establishes a model, where up-stream firms 'produce' drastic innovations and down-stream firms specialize in final goods production. A drastic innovation obsolesces the existing technology but down-stream firms can improve it by their incremental innovations. The economy develops in...

Israel offers contingent subsidies to selected industrial R&D projects, with the purpose of creating high-quality jobs, reducing the trade deficit, increasing productivity and promoting growth. In 1987-94, 1,200 firms received $1,400 million of subsidies in support of $3,500 million of R&D (in...

Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP) which are emerging fields of interest both for academic economists and for policy makers in both advanced and developing economies. The specific...

This is a detailed study of the effects of developments in new materials on industrial strategies in Europe. The study shows how a new information-rich economic system is emerging, based on uncertainty and complexity management. The mechanisms of emergence and of viability of such a system...

[fre] C'est l'exigence de l'efficience du dispositif matériel qui est également la source de l'irréversibilité fondamentale de l'évolution technologique. Une fois appréhendée dans ses dimensions allocatives et cumulatives, la prise en compte de l'irréversibilité permet d'approfondir la...

[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...

[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...

[fre] Aux mouvements longs de l'activité économique correspondent très clairement des technologies spécifiques. La théorie schumpeterienne, bien que centrée sur la dynamique de l'innovation, ne propose pas une analyse économique explicite du processus de développement des technologies....