This chapter reviews and integrates much of what has been learned on the processes of
technological evolution, their main features, and their effects on the evolution of industries …

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets
and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered …

One key lever to reduce high battery cost, a main hurdle to comply with CO 2 emission
targets by overcoming generation variability from renewable energy sources and …

This paper analyses the evolution of regional innovation policy into the mainstream of public
policy. The paper examines the empirical and theoretical developments which have shifted …

This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in
all or most activities is favoured by certain common characteristics in the local 'milieu' …

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen deserves to be called the father of ecological economics. This
book connects Georgescu-Roegen's earlier work such as consumer choice theory and a …

This paper builds upon a view of economic organizations as problem-solving arrangements
and presents a simple model of adaptive problem-solving driven by trial-and-error learning …

This paper explores the relation between retail banks' branch-based processes and
financial performance. There are 11 processes included in this study, which represent the …

The relationship between property rights and the organisation of work has been one of the
fundamental issues examined in the'new institutional'literature1 and that on the'labour …

Production and learning of productive knowledge are profoundly intertwined processes as
the activation of either process triggers the other, very often implying interdependent …