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The agenda for evolutionary economics : results, dead ends, and challenges ahead

Dosi, Giovanni - 2022

forthcoming Manual, The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies. Part One: Innovation, Organization and Industrial Dynamics … returns. As summarized in this essays Part One of the Manual addresses in the foregoing perspective, (i) Innovation and … reader is warned against multiple risks of ''normalization'' by which 'evolution' is reduced to sheer 'innovation', and the …

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Appropriability, patents, and rates of innovation in complex products industries

Marengo, Luigi; Pasquali, Corrado; Valente, Marco; … - 2009

differentiation and component innovation. We show that, as the complexity of the product spaces increases, stronger patent regimes … yield lower rates of innovation, lower product quality and lower consumers' welfare. -- Patents ; appropriability of … innovation ; complex product industries ; industrial dynamics …

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness : from countries and sectors to firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2014

This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness : from countries and sectors to firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2014

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Embodied and disembodied technological change : the sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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Capabilities accumulation and development : what history tells the theory

Dosi, Giovanni; Yu, Xiaodan - 2018

In this contribution we offer a broad overview of the technological, institutional and policy dynamics associated with the great transformation - borrowing Karl Polanyi (1944) expression - leading from traditional, mostly rural, economies to economies driven by industrial activities (and...

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In order to stand up you must keep cycling : change and coordination in complex evolving economies

Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2016

In this work we discuss the main building blocks, achievements and challenges of an evolutionary interpretation of the relation between mechanisms of coordination and drivers of change in modern economies, seen as complex evolving systems. It is an evident stylised fact of modern economic...

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Institutional change and productivity growth in China's manufacturing 1998 - 2007 : the microeconomics of creative restructuring

Dosi, Giovanni; Lei, Jiasu; Yu, Xiaodan - 2013

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra-sectoral heterogeneity. A major process of both...

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Growth and survival of the "fitter"? : evidence from US new-born firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Pugliese, Emanuele; Santoleri, Pietro - 2017

We examine market selection mechanisms and their strength for a representative cohort of US new independent firms. In particular, we explore whether and how effectively markets reward newly-born firms according to their "fitness" in terms of both labour productivity and profitability. Our...

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The footprint of evolutionary processes of learning and selection upon the statistical properties of industrial dynamics

Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2015

Evolutionary theories of economic change identify the processes of idiosyncratic learning by individual firms and of market selection as the two main drivers of the dynamics of industries. Are such processes able to robustly account for the statistical regularities which industrial structures...

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