Mesoeconomic Structure, Innovation and Complexity: The Concept of Mesoeconomic Plexus

George Chorafakis and Patrice Laget
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George Chorafakis: University of Cambridge Department of Geography
Patrice Laget: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

Chapter 3 in Knowledge Matters, 2008, pp 52-86 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The transition to the knowledge economy is the most salient element of the recent transformations of the world economy. The predominant feature of this transition is the intensified use of technological and scientific knowledge in the production process. This transition is also related to a seemingly paradoxical phenomenon, the emergence of localities as focal points of economic activity in a globalizing world economy. Many see this phenomenon as an indication that the world economy is gradually shifting from a polycentric economic geography of almost self-sufficient, highly diversified, state-protected and inward-looking national production systems to one of interconnected, globally positioned and regionally embedded concentrations of specialized economic activity.

Keywords: Cellular Automaton; Multiagent System; Fitness Landscape; Niche Construction; Complex Adaptive System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582262_3

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