Recent theory has predicted that if competing technologies operate under dynamic
increasing returns, one, possibly inferior, technology will dominate the market. The history of …

One of the proudest achievements of Bell Telephone Laboratories in the post World War II
era, the video telephone system Picturephone ended its brief life as the Labs' biggest flop …

The technological history of early modern Europe was marked by" the spread of technical
knowledge through the movement of people" and" the creation by almost all the European …

Background Since the early 1970s, health care provision has experienced rapid growth in
the investment and adoption of health information technologies (HITs). However, the …

Depuis la fondation des Annales, économistes et historiens semblent avoir adopté des
stratégies différentes en matière d'histoire économique: axiomatisation, mathématisation …

The history of aluminum illustrates how the concept of symbolic meanings can help connect
culture with business history. Aluminum's symbolic meanings played a crucial role in its …

El artículo conjuga los aportes de varias teorías sobre el cambio tecnológico e institucional
que ayudan a comprender la persistencia de la" trampa del atraso" en el sentido de fallas …

Inertial navigation systems are central to modern navigation. They permit wholly self-
contained navigation of remarkable accuracy. They are now standard in long-range civil …

Para abordar el análisis del desarrollo económico como proceso sujeto a una trayectoria
histórica, se comienza con un breve repaso de las aportaciones y limitaciones de la …

Electronic purse systems can be an alternative for cash payments as well as PIN payments
or credit card payments. For retailers as well as banks, this is attractive for reasons of cost …