Techno-economic paradigms : essays in honour of Carlota Perez / / edited by Wolfgang Drechsler, Rainer Kattel and Erik S. Reinert [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458864603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-283-37787-X; 9786613377876; 1-84331-822-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 429 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: The Anthem Other Canon series
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetti: Technological innovations - Economic aspects; Economics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: TITLE PAGE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1:INTRODUCTION: CARLOTA PEREZ AND EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS; The Framework; Explaining History; Systematic Evolutionary Theory; A Viable Methodological Alternative; New Research Directions; References; Chapter 2:DEVELOPING INNOVATION CAPABILITY: MEETING THE POLICY CHALLENGE; Introduction; Developing Absorptive Capacity; Learning to Innovate; Helping Firms Develop Innovation Capability; Broadcast Mode; Agent-Assisted Mode; Peer-Assisted Mode; Conclusions/Reflections; References; Chapter 3:SLOW FOOD, SLOW GROWTH ... SLOW ICT: THE VISION OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCEThe Most Important Technological Trend of the Last Decade; Now That More and More AmI Type of Technological Progress is a Given: What Will We Do With It?; AmI and Europe's Challenges; The Dark Side; Food and the Future of AmI; References; Chapter 4:TECHNICAL CHANGE AND STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES: CONVERGING APPROACHES TO PROBLEMS OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT; Introduction; Connecting LASA with the Neo-Schumpeterian Work on Innovation: Perez' Contribution; The Relevance of Technical Progress to the Development Process and the Pre-eminence of Non-Economic FactorsAsymmetries in the Process ; of Development and Its Dual Character; Learning Asymmetries: Failures in Knowledge Generation, Acquisition and Use as Underdevelopment Problems; The Role of the Financial Dimension; The Importance of Policy for Structural Change: The Role of the State and Public Policy; Concluding Remarks: Opening and Illuminating Pathways; References; Chapter 5:THE NEW TECHNO-ECONOMIC PARADIGM AND ITS IMPACT ON INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; Introduction; Structure and Dynamics of Industries: Some "Stylized Facts" and Long-Term TrendsSize Distributions; Sectoral Specificities; Number of Firms and Employment by Size Classes; Industrial Concentration; Size, Innovativeness and Efficiency; Entry, Exit and Market Turbulence; Some Conclusions: The Major Stylized Facts; References; Chapter 6:GOVERNANCE IN AND OF TECHNOECONOMIC PARADIGM SHIFTS: CONSIDERATIONS FOR AND FROM THE NANOTECHNOLOGY SURGE; Task and Background; Nanotechnology as a TEP; NanoGov I; NanoGov II; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7:INNOVATION POLICY AND INCENTIVES STRUCTURE: LEARNING FROM THE MEXICAN CASEIntroduction; A Natural Resource-Based Strategy for the Development of Latin America; Efforts to Build a New STI Strategy: The Mexican Case; Recent Changes of the STI Policy; Challenges; Lessons from the Mexican Case; Incentives Structure and Agents' Strategic Behaviour; Features of Strategic Behaviour from Agents; Incentives Structure and Social Norms; Leadership, Governance and the Generation of Consensus; Resources and Viability of the Strategy; Final Reflections; References; Chapter 8:SCHUMPETER'S BUSINESS CYCLES AND TECHNO-ECONOMIC PARADIGMS
• Sommario/riassunto: ‘Techno-Economic Paradigms’ presents a series of essays discussing one of the most interesting and talked-about socio-economic theories of our times: techno-economic paradigm shifts.