This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall’s view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into...

The assumption of given consumer tastes and production, loses ground very rapidly in information-intensive economic systems, where the ability to design products and services combinations for increasingly specific needs and skills is a key variable to competition. This article presents a...

[fre] C'est l'exigence de l'efficience du dispositif matériel qui est également la source de l'irréversibilité fondamentale de l'évolution technologique. Une fois appréhendée dans ses dimensions allocatives et cumulatives, la prise en compte de l'irréversibilité permet d'approfondir la...

[eng] Informatisation is not just another version of the general tendency towards automation. The progressive introduction of information technology enable firms to adjust better to technical and economic environment changes. While flexibilite is essentially a reaction to high uncertainty...

[eng] The recent renewal of the evolutionary approach in economics is an occasion to check the potential contribution of the natural selection analogy to economics in general and to the theory of innovation in particular. After stating the initial and controversial positions the author analyzes...

Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP) which are emerging fields of interest both for academic economists and for policy makers in both advanced and developing economies. The specific...