CONTENTS
List of figures = xi
List of tables = xii
General editor's foreword = xiii
Foreword = xv
Introduction = 1
PART I
The theory = 11
1 Path - dependence in industrial economics and the economics of innovation = 13
2 The new economics of knowledge = 43
3 The dynamics of localised technological changes : the interaction between factor costs inducement, demandpull and Schumpeterian rivalry = 67
4 Localised technological change and Schumpeterian growth regimes = 100
5 Economic topology : the role of technological communication in the dynamics of localised technological change = 113
PART Ⅱ
Applications = 131
6 Localised technological changes in telecommunications and the network of networks = 133
7 Localised technological change and unemployment in the global economy : a Schumpeterian approach = 148
8 New information technology and the evolution of the organisation of knowledge production = 161
9 The dynamics of technology and the evolution of the organisation of knowledge production = 178
10 The evolution of standards as economic institutions = 192
11 New information technology and the knowledge - based economy : the European evidence = 209
12 Conclusion = 231
Notes = 247
Bibliography = 254
Index = 275
