The purpose of this paper is to set out a conceptual framework for policies to promote the diffusion of microelectronics in the context of developing countries. The author bases her discussion on the experience of Venezuela, a medium-sized Latin American economy which is currently trying to...

This paper argues that the two boom and bust episodes of the turn of the century-the internet mania and crash of the 1990s and the easy liquidity boom and bust of the 2000s-are two distinct components of a single structural phenomenon. They are essentially the equivalent of 1929 developed in two...

This paper locates the notion of technological revolutions in the neo-Schumpeterian effort to understand innovation and to identify the regularities, continuities and discontinuities in the process of innovation. It looks at the micro- and meso-foundations of the patterns observed in the...

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital presents a novel interpretation of the good and bad times in the economy, taking a long-term perspective and linking technology and finance in an original and convincing way.

This paper takes up Chris Freeman's challenge of facing the environmental limits with science, technology and innovation in order to keep open the possibilities of the developing world along a sustainable "green" growth path. It analyses the differences between the energy intensive paradigm of...

This essay looks at the current trends in globalization and in the diffusion of the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) revolution and its paradigm in order to propose a vision of a successful and socially equitable future for Latin America, based on the common features, while...