this paper aims to broaden the understanding of the process of technological change and standardization through an evolutionary approach, which avoids the determinism of conventional orthodox models of technology diffusion and standardization. A model is developed to explore how change between...

The broadening spectrum of environmental problems, the uncertainty regarding their scale and duration, and their posible irreversibility, in the context of the growing social preference for environmental quality, make it necessary to undertake an ex ante approach to the link between productive...