discusses some of the interpretative achievements stemming from e.g. the economics of innovation, industrial economics …

they are tapped, and the revealed outcomes in terms of advances in production techniques and product characteristics … in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown up on … ways they evolve over time. Another domain concerns the nature of competition in such industries, wherein innovation and …

rates of innovation. Indeed, there is circumstantial evidence to the opposite. And, indeed, a sound theoretic consideration …

uncertainty and innovation-driven competition among firms. In this work we survey the state-of-the-art in the analysis of such … of innovation diffusion; and, finally, (vii) we discuss the role of history in the evolution of technologies, that is …