Pervasive Enough? General Purpose Technologies as an Emergent Property

Vladimir Korzinov and Ivan Savin

Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

Abstract: We propose a novel model of knowledge discovery shedding light on the emergence of General Purpose Technologies (GPTs), the process which has been largely neglected in the literature on technological change. We demonstrate that GPTs emerge only when certain conditions with regard to the following techno-economic factors are met: knowledge diffusion, coordination on technological trajectories and volatility in the rank of expected returns on products. Furthermore, our model provides intuitive explanation for technological lock-ins, S-shaped curves of technology adoption, temporal clustering of innovations in time and replicates distinct features of empirical networks of relatedness among technologies and products.

Keywords: general purpose technology; technology networks; pervasiveness of technologies; knowledge diffusion; innovation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 D83 D85 L16 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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