Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation: Schumpeterian Legacies

✍ Scribed by Franco Malerba, Uwe Cantner (auth.), Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner, Prof. Franco Malerba (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 412
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides an account of work in the Schumpeterian and evolutionary tradition of industrial dynamics and the evolution of industries. It is shown that over time industries evolve and change their structure. In this dynamic process change is affected and sometimes constraint by many factors: knowledge and technologies, the capabilities and incentives of actors, new products and processes, and institutions. All these elements and their relations drive innovative activities and affect economic performance in an industry. Investigations into these complex phenomena show a deep interdependence between empirical work delivering a rich account of regularities and stylized facts in the structure of industries and their change, and theoretical analyses ranging from appreciate theorizing to formal modeling.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Innovation and the evolution of industries....Pages 7-27
Entrepreneurship, evolution and the human mind....Pages 29-47
Division of labor and division of knowledge: Why the nature of the causality matters for the evolutionary theory of the firm....Pages 49-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Young firm growth in high-tech sectors: The role of founders’ human capital....Pages 67-86
Product entry in a fast growing industry: The LAN switch market....Pages 87-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Network effects and the choice of mobile phone operator....Pages 109-128
Evolving networks of inventors....Pages 129-148
Why do firms disclose knowledge and how does it matter?....Pages 149-172
Innovation and competitiveness in local SMEs: Characteristics of firms, entrepreneurs, environment and their interrelationships....Pages 173-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
New combinations in old industries: The introduction of radical innovations in tire manufacturing....Pages 189-207
Fitness determinants in creative industries: A longitudinal study on the Hollywood film-making industry, 1992–2003....Pages 209-237
The selection environment for gas to liquids technology and technological strategies: Challenging the natural trajectory....Pages 239-253
Innovation and employment in Europe: A sectoral perspective....Pages 255-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
A laboratory experiment of knowledge diffusion dynamics....Pages 283-302
To innovate or to transfer?....Pages 303-319
Dynamic gap bridging and realized gap set development: The strategic role of the firm in the coevolution of capability space and opportunity space....Pages 321-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Innovation strategy and the patenting behavior of firms....Pages 345-371
Effects of patenting behavior on corporate growth: A panel data analysis of German start-up firms....Pages 373-390
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
What’s the aim for competition policy: Optimizing market structure or encouraging innovative behaviors?....Pages 393-405
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Social and technological efficiency of patent systems....Pages 407-424

✦ Subjects

R & D/Technology Policy; Economic Growth