Some famous pioneers together with the most promising new practitioners in the field show within this book how they define their subject. This is an authoritative survey of important branches of evolutionary economics, containing innovative new perspectives on market dynamics and evolutionary...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Verzeichnis der Tabellen und Abbildungen -- 1. Explorative Forschungsstrategie -- 2. Kausalstrukturierte Kreisläufe -- 3. Interdependente Modellansätze -- 4. Exemplarische Erweiterung -- 5. Ausblick -- Fußnoten -- Literatur -- Die Autoren -- Backmatter

Schumpeter’s idea that innovations can be described as new combinations often is understood as a mere metaphor and slight generalization of what he considers as the characterizing feature of entrepreneurship. The main argument of this paper is that more and deeper issues are involved in the...