The microdynamics of technological change / Cristiano Antonelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antonelli, Cristiano.

Series:

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 23.

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of the emerging information and communication technologies associated with a knowledge-based economy, and looks at how knowledge is increasingly treated as a product in its own right. An original framework is developed to comprehend these fundamental shifts, based on three bodies of knowledge: * the economics of path dependence and of historical time as they are elaborated in the economics of new technologies * economic topology based on the methodology of network analysis * the new economics of knowledge a

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; General editor's foreword; Foreword; Introduction; The theory; Path-dependence in industrial economics and the economics of innovation; The new economics of knowledge; The dynamics of localised technological changes: the interaction between factor costs inducement, demand-pull and Schumpeterian rivalry; Localised technological change and Schumpeterian growth regimes; Economic topology: the role of technological communication in the dynamics of localised technological change; Applications

Localised technological changes in telecommunications and the network of networksLocalised technological change and unemployment in the global economy: a Schumpeterian approach; New information technology and the evolution of the organisation of knowledge production; The dynamics of technological communication and the evolution of technological co-operation; The evolution of standards as economic institutions; New information technology and the knowledge-based economy: the European evidence; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-65607-6

1-134-65608-4

1-280-33690-0

9786610336906

0-203-02270-X

0-203-17103-9

9780203022702

OCLC:

50016716