Innovation and the Evolution of Industries: History-Friendly Models - Softcover

Malerba, Franco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107641004 ISBN 13: 9781107641006

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

A new approach to the analysis of technological process, emphasising the tailoring of formal modelling to historical context.

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About the Authors

Franco Malerba is Professor of Industrial Economics at the Bocconi University in Milan. He is former President of both the International Schumpeter Society and the European Association of Research in Industrial Economics. He is the author of over fifteen books on industrial economics and innovation, and has contributed to numerous journals on the subject.

Richard R. Nelson is George Blumenthal Emeritus Professor of International and Public Affairs, Business and Law at Colombia University, and heads the Program on Science, Technology, and Global Development at the Columbia Earth Institute, New York. He is a seminal figure in the revival of evolutionary economics, and is the co-author of An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1990) with Sidney G. Winters.

Luigi Orsenigo is Professor of Applied Economics at IUSS, University of Pavia. He is the editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and the author of three books on biotechnology and industry, and of more than one hundred publications in major international journals.

Sidney G. Winter is the Deloitte and Touche Emeritus Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. With Richard R. Nelson, he co-authored the highly cited book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1990). He was the winner of the Viipuri Prize in Strategic Management in 2008 and the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research in 2015.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107641004
• ISBN 13: 9781107641006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294