Innovation, complexity and economic evolution : from theory to policy /: from theory to policy. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pier Paolo Saviotti.
• Authors: Saviotti, Paolo
• Contents: Innovation, Complexity and Economic Evolution: from Theory to Policy * Pier Paolo Saviotti * Ch. 1. Manmade artefacts, physical technologies and institutions * Introduction * 2) Manmade artefacts and structural change in socioeconomic systems * 2.1) MMAs and the twin characteristics representation * 2.2) Generalised production of services . * 2.3) MMAs, wants, needs and basic human functions * 2.4) Analytical implications of the twin characteristic representation * Fig 1.4. Characteristics representation of pure substitution. T1 = pre-existing technology; T2 = new technology * Fig 1.5. Twin characteristics representation of partial substitution. T1 = old technology, T2 = new technology * Box 1.1 * Examples of different types of substitution * Box 1.2 * Examples of technological specialization * 3) Concepts in the economics of innovation. * 3.1) Innovation concepts and the twin characteristics representation * 3.2) General Purpose Technologies (GPTs). * 4) MMAs, physical technologies and the environment * 4.1) Sharing economy * 5) Institutions and organizational forms * 5.1) Transformations and transitions * 6) Summary and conclusions * ECONOMICS, QUALITATIVE CHANGE AND DISCONTINUITIES * 1) The nature of qualitative change * 2) Qualitative and quantitative change * 2.1) Is it possible to distinguish qualitative and quantitative change? * 2.2) Variety vs differentiation * 2.3) Implications of qualitative and quantitative change * 3) Some analytical implications * 3.1) Competition * 3.2) Complementarity * 3.3 Demand theory * 4) Conclusions * Ch 3 * ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR AS THE MOST GENERAL FORM OF SOCIOECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR * Introduction * 2) Adaptation and systems * 2.1) System stability and change * 2.2) System dynamics * 2.4) Closed and open systems * 3) Adaptive Behaviour * 3.1) ADTO and ADOF * 3.2) Collective and individual adaptation * 3.3) Adaptation, stability and change * 3.4) Fitness * 3.5) Barriers to adaptation * 4) Adaptive behaviour vs optimizing rationality * Summary. * Ch 4. KNOWLEDGE AND ECONOMICS * 1. INTRODUCTION * 2) Some considerations on the nature of knowledge * 2.2) Two properties of knowledge * 2.2.1) Knowledge as a co-relational structure . * 3. Knowledge in socioeconomic systems * 3.1. The production of knowledge * 3.2. Knowledge and institutions * 4). EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS * 4.1) The knowledge base of the firm * 4.2) Knowledge properties * 5. Summary and conclusions * Ch 5 Structural change, Differentiation and Economic Development * 1) From stylized facts to theoretical understanding * 1.1) Stylized facts * 1.2) Efficiency and creativity * 1.3) Structural change, differentiation and economic development * 1.5) Structure, order and change * 2) Structural change and differentiation in the literature on economic growth and development * 2.1) Models * 2.2) Empirical studies of variety and diversification * 3) Present state and future developments * 4) Summary and conclusions * CH 6. COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES. * 2) Antecedents and recent developments * 2.1) Evolutionary and constructivist rationalisms as alternative modes of knowledge. * 2. 2). Structure, order and change * 2.1.3) Rules and institutions * 2.3) Complexity and evolutionary theories * 3) Summary * Ch 7. EVOLUTIONARY POLITICAL ECONOMICS * Introduction * 2) On the interactions between innovations, technologies and institutions in recent history * 2.1) The rise of manufacturing * 2.2) From manufacturing to services * 2.3) Recent trends: globalization, neoliberalism, AI, Knowledge based economy and society * 3) Human decision-making * 4) Summary and conclusions * Ch 8 * POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS * 1) Future trends and policy implications * 1.1. World challenges * 1.2) Main points of evolutionary economics * 2) Policy implications * 2.4) Environment * 3) Summary and conclusions of Ch 8 * REFERENCES *
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 330.1; Evolutionary economics; Neoclassical school of economics; Organizational change -- Economic aspects; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000837742; 9781000837698
• Related ISBNs: 9781032278148
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