The microdynamics of technological change / / Cristiano Antonelli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825994703321
• Autore: Antonelli Cristiano
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
• ISBN: 1-134-65607-6; 1-134-65608-4; 1-280-33690-0; 9786610336906; 0-203-02270-X; 0-203-17103-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Collana: Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 23
• Disciplina: 338/.064
• Soggetti: Information technology; Technological innovations - Economic aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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