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"This book sets out to explore the generation of technological knowledge and the introduction of technological change. Cristiano Antonelli enters this new area of debate by arguing that increasing returns in the production of knowledge apply, albeit under a very specific and contextual set of complementary conditions. Increasing returns can take place within technological districts and clusters where qualified interactions among connected innovators make it possible to take advantage of the modular indivisibility and cumulativeness of technological knowledge. Antonelli illustrates his argument by reference to technological systems and complementarities, irreversibility, and collective knowledge; by examining the role of learning and technological communication as key factors in defining the rate and direction of change within technological systems; and by identifying technological districts and clusters within a theoretical framework which values local externalities, irreversibility, and endogenous structural change. ""The Microeconomics of Technological Systems"" proposes a general, interpretative framework which identifies, qualifies, and specifies the specific context and processes which make it possible for increasing returns to apply in the localized production of technological knowledge and change. In so doing, it builds on the results of systematic explorations of the microdynamics of technological knowledge and change over a large number of European technological districts and clusters centred on new communication and mechanical engineering technologies."

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Author:   Cristiano Antonelli (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, University of Torino)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780199245536

ISBN 10:   0199245533
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   12 July 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Irreversibility Innovation and Technological Complementarities 3: The Economics of Localized Technological Knowledge: Learning Recombination and Increasing Returns 4: Dynamic Efficiency Wages, Learning, and Innovation 5: Localized Technological Knowledge as a Collective Activity 6: The Economics of Technological Communication in Technological Districts 7: Collective Knowledge and the Dynamics of Technological Clusters: The Case of Communication Technologies 8: The Dynamics of Knowledge Internalization: The Case of the Fiat in the Technological District of Torino in the Mechanical Engineering Cluster 9: New Directions in the Corporate Production of Technological Knowledge 10: Conclusions

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The systemic approach proposed in the book for understanding processes and phenomena leading to technological change is particularly valuable in informing empirical studies on local clusters. Journal of Evolutionary Economics Very topical ... Following the path traced in evolutionary thinking on technological change in the theoretical/descriptive part, the author provides a very rich framework for the study of localized technological change. Journal of Evolutionary Economics

The systemic approach proposed in the book for understanding processes and phenomena leading to technological change is particularly valuable in informing empirical studies on local clusters. Journal of Evolutionary Economics Very topical ... Following the path traced in evolutionary thinking on technological change in the theoretical/descriptive part, the author provides a very rich framework for the study of localized technological change. Journal of Evolutionary Economics

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"Cristiano Antonelli is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Director of the Graduate School of Communication Studies at the University of Torino. He is also Vice-President of the International Schumpeter Society and Managing Editor of the journal, ""Economics of Innovation and New Technology""."

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