This book sets out to explore the generation of technological knowledge and the introduction of technological change. Cristiano Antonelli enters this new area of debate by arguing that increasing returns in the production of knowledge apply, albeit under a very specific and contextual set of...

During the last 40 years, economics of innovation has emerged as a distinct area of enquiry at the crossing of the economics of growth, industrial organization, regional economics and the theory of the firm, becoming a well-identified area of competence in economics specializing not only in the...

[eng] The diffusion of a new technology of production depends on both its own characteristics in terms of profit and technical capabilities and the general conditions for investment.. This paper aims to explicit how diffusion processes are the combined result of investment behaviours and...

[eng] C. Antonelli - Costs and productivity in the textile firms,as a function of their size. The purpose of this note is to analyse total cost and productivity by size of firm in the Italian cotton and wool industry in the second half of the seventies. The analysis is broken down into the...

[eng] A dynamic path-dependent structuralism has been developed in Italian industrial economics building on the analysis of the role of the systemic and non-ergodic nature of economic change and hence of historic time in the evolution of the organization of firms and industries, the characters...

Il modello Schumpeteriano, anche grazie alla ricca tradizione interpretativa che da esso trae spunto, offre importanti opportunità, sia per l’analisi critica del funzionamento del sistema economico a partire dallo studio delle relazioni tra innovazione, crescita e crisi, che per...

The knowledge and instruments developed in recent years have paved the way to a substantial contribution from economics to support political and social decision making in matters of scientific progress, such as efficient funding, institutional settings, and allocation. We review the progress...

The telecommunications service industry seems to increasingly assume the characteristics of a key-industry, that is to say, an Industry which provides the rest of the economic system with important pecuniary and technological externalities that affect the overall levels of output and...

A radical change in the economic analysis and empirical estimates of demand for telecommunications services is called for. The focus on the role of price and revenue elasticities has been shown to have limitations and demand is now thought to be stimulated by the continuous increase in...

The article investigates the effects of the agglomeration of technological activities on the growth in regional productivity, applying the notion of pecuniary knowledge externalities. Pecuniary knowledge externalities enable one to appreciate both the gains and losses associated with the...