Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes

Giovanni Dosi and Richard Nelson

Chapter Chapter 3 in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, 2010, vol. 1, pp 51-127 from Elsevier

Abstract: This chapter reviews and integrates much of what has been learned on the processes of technological evolution, their main features, and their effects on the evolution of industries.

Keywords: innovation; technological paradigms; technological regimes and trajectories; evolution; learning; capability-based theories of the firm; selection; industrial dynamics; emergent properties; endogenous growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L16 L20 O30 O31 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7218(10)01003-8

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