New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honour of Paul A. DavidCristiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H. Hall, W. Edward Steinmueller Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world’s leading scholars in the economics of innovation. |
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PART II Path Dependence in Technical Change | 21 |
2 Competing technologies technological monopolies and the rate of convergence to a stable market structure | 23 |
3 Path dependence localised technological change and the quest for dynamic effciency | 51 |
4 A historyfriendly model of innovation market structure and regulation in the age of random screening of the pharmaceutical industry | 70 |
5 Path dependence and diversification in corporate technological histories | 118 |
6 Is the world flat or round? Mapping changes in the taste for art | 158 |
explorations in the pure theory of price for fine art | 188 |
11 Epistemic communities and communities of practice in the knowledgebased firm | 296 |
pandas thumbs calypso policies and other institutional considerations | 323 |
an international comparison | 361 |
PART IV The Diffusion of New Technologies | 387 |
14 Uncovering general purpose technologies with patent data | 389 |
diffusion of innovations with network effects | 427 |
a real options model applied to the comparative international diusion of robot technology | 438 |
PART V Postscript | 469 |
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