This paper is based on an application of the complex systems approach to economics with the objective of exploring the micro- and meso-mechanisms of development. Under this approach, innovation can be seen as an emergent property that depends on micro interaction and on specificities of macro...

En las últimas décadas, el enfoque de la complejidad ha sido adoptado por diferentes autores de la economía evolucionista para explicar algunas características de la dinámica microeconómica de los sistemas de innovación, tales como la micro-heterogeneidad, la irreversibilidad temporal y...

The central question of this paper is: what are the forces that determine the continuum negative relationship between knowledge diffusion and appropriation in the context of the new techno-productive paradigm? In connection to this question we will make reference to the following issues: [i] How...

The new economic scenario increases the importance of the "innovative capacity" of the agents as crucial competitive instrument in order to attain the differentiating element required by the competitive process. Innovative capacity refers to the agents' capability to transform general knowledge...