Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Part 1: The Building Blocks
2. Shifting Heuristics in the Economics of Innovation
3. The Retrieval of the Economics of Technical Change
Part 2: Innovation and Structural Change
4. Composition Effects: The Direction of Technological Change and its Context of Introduction
5. New Technologies and Structural Change: Constraints and Inducements to Innovation
6. Industrial Dynamics and Technological Change
7. The Dynamics of Factors Markets and Technological Change
8. Production Innovation and Barriers to Entry
9. Relative Prices and International Competition in the Global Economy
10. Feed-backs Path Dependence and Evolution
Part 3: Application and Implications
11. Understanding the Economics of New Information and Communication Technology in the Global Economy
12. Policy Implications: An European Perspective
13. Conclusions

About the Author

Antonelli, Cristiano

Reviews

'Overall, the book should be recommended to any scholar's bookshelf where technological and structural change are of interest. For the many who believe in such an interdependence, this work is obligatory reading and a highly valuable teaching and reference aid.'- Research Policy