Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change by Cristiano Antonel

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This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and Marshallian legacies.

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This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyze the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and Marshallian legacies. The Handbook elaborates the notion of innovation as an emerging property of the organized complexity of an economic system, and provides the basic tools to understand the recursive dynamics between the emergence of innovation and the unfolding of organized complexity. In so doing, it highlights the role of organizational thinking in explaining the introduction of innovations and the dynamics of structural change. With a new methodological approach to the economics of technological change, this wide-ranging volume will become the standard reference for postgraduates, academics and practitioners in the fields of evolutionary economics, complexity economics and the economics of innovation.

Author Biography

Edited by Cristiano Antonelli, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", University of Torino and Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy

Table of Contents

Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION1. The Economic Complexity of Technological Change: Knowledge Interaction and Path DependenceCristiano AntonelliPART II: THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF INNOVATION2. Complexity and Innovation DynamicsDavid A. Lane3. Complexity in the Theory of the Developing FirmHarry Bloch and Stan Metcalfe4. The Persistence of Innovation and Path DependenceAlessandra Colombelli and Nick von Tunzelmann5. The Symbiotic Theory of Innovation: Knowledge Creation and the Evolution of the Capitalist SystemMartin FransmanPART III: THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF KNOWLEDGE6. Knowledge, Complexity and NetworksPier Paolo Saviotti7. The Dynamics of Technological Knowledge: From Linearity to RecombinationJackie Krafft and Francesco Quatraro8. Complexity and the Coordination of Technological Knowledge: The Case of Innovation PlatformsDavide Consoli and Pier Paolo Patrucco9. Causes, Consequences and Dynamics of 'Complex' Distributions of Technological Activities: The Case of Prolific InventorsWilliam Latham and Christian Le Bas10. The Biomedical Workforce in the US: An Example of Positive FeedbacksPaula E. Stephan11. University–Industry Interactions: The Unresolved PuzzleIsabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Aldo Geuna and Federica Rossi12. A Functional Theory of Technology and Technological ChangeAndrea BonaccorsiPART IV: THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT13. Mesoeconomics: A Unified Approach to Systems Complexity and EvolutionKurt Dopfer14. Notes on a Complexity Theory of Economic DevelopmentKoen Frenken and Ron Boschma15. Innovation Networks: Formation, Performance and DynamicsUwe Cantner and Holger Graf16. The Complex Interaction between Global Production Networks, Digital Information Systems and International Knowledge TransfersJarle Hildrum, Dieter Ernst and Jan Fagerberg17. The Complex Dynamics of Economic DevelopmentVerónica Robert and Gabriel YoguelPART V: LESSONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC POLICY18. Coevolution, Emergence and Economic Development: Some Lessons from the Israeli and Mexican ExperienceGabriela Dutrénit and Morris Teubal19. Network Models of Innovation Process and Policy ImplicationsPaul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell and Greg Wiltshire20. Government as Entrepreneur: Examples from US Technology PolicyAlbert N. Link and Jamie R. LinkIndex

Review

'The editor of this Handbook, Cristiano Antonelli, is to commended for the high quality of the group of authors he has assembled for this project. They provide excellent coverage of the various areas within the field, covering complexity of innovation, complexity of knowledge, complexity of structural change and development, and lessons and implications for economic policy. This is an important and evolving topic, and this book captures the cutting edge of research on it, particularly in connection with the broader idea of economic complexity.' -- J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., James Madison University, US'My overall impression of the handbook is very favourable. It gives a broad overview of the different topics addressed by complexity economics, especially with regard to innovation and knowledge management. Knowledge and innovation are treated as the emergent properties of a system in which heterogeneous actors interact in different ways at different levels: the firm (meso), the individual (micro), and society (macro). Both Antonelli s and Bonaccorsi's chapters are treasure troves of concepts and ideas, although not necessarily for the complexity novice. Lane's chapter, however, provides an excellent introduction. . . For researchers in the field of economics and those that are interested in 'complexity in the real world', this handbook provides ample discussion and research roads ahead.' -- Andreas Ligtvoet, Science and Public Policy'Antonelli's handbook is an impressive compendium of theoretical approaches to complexity in economics that has emerged during the last two decades. . . this handbook is an amazing excursus on the state of the art of complexity thinking in the economics of technological change. Not only did the compendium reinforce the achievements of other theory textbooks in this field; it also paves the way for a "normalisation" of complexity in economics. It strongly defends the advantage of operationalization and applied research in economics and touches upon important policy implications. Therefore, it is a must-read both for the scientist and for the policy researcher in the field of innovation and technological change.' -- Manfred Paier, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

Review Quote

'A series of in-depth critical insights on the nature and role of organizational thinking and the dynamics of structural change are discussed in a new methodological approach that provides academics with a scholarly discussion of evolutionary economics. . . The editor. . . provides an international symposium of collected research and knowledge key to any college-level discussion of technology and economics.'

Details ISBN1848442564 Author Cristiano Antonelli Pages 576 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN-10 1848442564 ISBN-13 9781848442566 Series Elgar Original Reference Language English Year 2011 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 338.064 Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2011-06-30 NZ Release Date 2011-06-30 UK Release Date 2011-06-30 Publication Date 2011-06-30 Edited by Cristiano Antonelli Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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