Microdynamics of Technological Change

Cristiano Antonelli is Professor and Chair of Economics in the School of Communication of the University of Turin, where he organises the Economics of Innovation Laboratory. He is also managing editor of the journal Economics of Innovation and New Technology and has published widely in the field of the economics of innovation.

' ... the book is very stimulating in its attempts of combining the Schumpeterian approach to innovation, structural change and growth, with the Marshallian partial-equilibrium analytical framework.' - Rinaldo Evangelista, Technovation'It represents a rare (and much needed) attempt of treating with analytical rigour and theoretical depth the multidimensional nature of technological change and its micro-macro economic domains ... ' - Rinaldo Evangelista, Technovation

• I. Introduction, Part 1: The Theory, II. Path-Dependance in Industrial Economics and the Economics of Innovation, III. The New Economics of Knowledge, IV. The Dyamics of Localized Technological Changes. The Interaction Between Factor Costs-Inducement, Demand Pull and Schumpeterin Rivalry, V. Localized and Technological Change and Schumpeterian Growth Regimes, VI. Econcomic Topology: The Role of Technological Externalities in the Dynamics of Localized Technological Change, Part 2: Applications, VII. Localized Technological Changes in Telecommunications and the Networks of Networks, VIII. Localized Technollogical Change and Unemployment in the Global Ecocnomy: A Schumpeterian Approach, IX. New Information Technology and the Evolution of the Organization of Knowledge Production, X. The Dynamics of Technological Externalities and the Evolution of Technological Co-operation, XI. The Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions, XII. New Information Technology and the Knowledge Based Economy. The European Evidence, XIII. Conclusion, XIV. Bibliography