Economic Interdependence and Innovative Activity: An Input–Output Analysis - Hardcover

DeBresson, Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858983886 ISBN 13: 9781858983882

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

How does innovation emerge from normal economic activity? Economic Interdependence and Innovative Activity is an original new book which tries to answer this question by reconciling inter-industrial analysis with the study of innovation.

This book provides a bridge between economic statics and the dynamics of growth and development. As well as offering important and original empirical data for Canada, France, Italy, Greece and China, the authors make a series of theoretical advances and propose a new way to observe the innovative process as well as new analytical tools to examine innovative activity. Their central thesis is that innovative outputs emerge out of increased social interaction, and division of labour through cooperative networks. An authoritative theoretical introduction and some thought-provoking conclusions have been prepared by Christian DeBresson.

Economic Interdependence and Innovative Activity encourage input-output economists to encompass innovative activities in dynamic models and innovation researchers to look at technical interdependencies.

About this title

About the Author

The late Christian DeBresson, formerly Professor of Management and Economics of Technological Change, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858983886
• ISBN 13: 9781858983882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480