Innovation Networks in the Biotechnology-Based Sectors

Andreas Pyka and Pier Paolo Saviotti

No 220, Discussion Paper Series from Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics

Abstract: The basic theme underlying this paper is qualitative change taking place during economic development. These changes in the composition of the economic system should become one of the most important variables in models of economic growth and development. Our knowledge of the relationship between economic development and qualitative change, however, is still very limited. This paper attempts to shed light on some important aspects of the role played by qualitative change in economic development, by laying the foundations of a model in which changes in the composition of the economic system are endogenously generated by the evolution of the system itself and, in turn, affect its future development. To put it shortly, we can say that economic development is a process in which new activities emerge, old ones disappear, the weight of all economic activities and their patterns of interaction change.

Keywords: economic development; qualitative change; Neo-Schumpeterian-Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O0 O12 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-04
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