General purpose technologies (GPT) have a significant impact on economic activity through radical technological change and wide technological diffusion. This paper aims to address the generality of technologies associated with the GPT concept. Information and communications technologies (ICT),...

The present paper addresses the dynamics of innovation, by extending the analysis beyond a static-economic perspective. It offers a dynamic-institutional mapping of relational capacities to dynamically innovate. Its main goal is to contribute to the above-mentioned research theme by presenting a...

In den letzten Jahren wird verstärkt die Einbindung der Nachfrageseite in die Forschungspolitik gefordert. Danach soll der Staat stärker als Nachfrager neuer Technologien auftreten. Allerdings wirft eine simple Nachfrage schaffende Politik viele Fragen auf. Es droht zum einen die Gefahr, dass...

This paper describes the approach applied and the results of an evaluation of the effects of the Swiss government programme to promote the diffusion of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) from 1990 to 1996. The method used is based on specifying and econometrically estimating with firm...