Long Term Economic Development : Demand, Finance, Organization, Policy and Innovation in a Schumpeterian Perspective

Introduction -- Schumpeter's Core Works Revisited -- Back to Engel?- Technological Regimes and Demand Structure in the Evolution of the Pharmaceutical Industry -- Innovation and Demand in Industry Dynamics -- Production and Financial Linkages in Inter-Firm Networks -- Does History Matter?- Innovation, Real primary Commodity Prices and Business Cycles -- Knowledge Flows in High-Tech Industry Clusters -- The International Diffusion of Biotechnology -- The Internet as a Global Production Reorganizer -- Looking Around: the Smart Way of Italian SMEs to Innovate -- Strategic Fit Between Regional Innovation Policy and Regional Innovation Systems -- Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation and the Sources of Breakthrough Inventions -- R&D, Patents and Stock Return Volatility -- On Profit Differentials Between Persistent and Occasional Innovators -- Financial Factors and Patents -- Building Systems -- What Causes Creative Destruction?- Markets and Organizations -- Financial System and Technological Catching-Up