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This work attempts to address two basic questions at the core of the whole economic discipline since its inception.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Development and Growth as Institutionally Embedded Evolutionary Processes
- 3: Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
- 4: Behaviours, Learning, and Organizations in Complex and Evolving Environments
- 5: Formal Models of Learning, Innovation, and Diffusion
- 6: Knowledge, Procedures, and Input/Output Relations
- 7: Consumer Behaviours
- 8: Markets and their Organization
- 9: The Structure and Evolution of Industries
- References
About the author
Giovanni Dosi has been Professor of Economics at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) since 1998. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex and before joining Sant'Anna has been Director of the International Research Project on "Technological and Economic Dynamics" at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (Austria) and Professor of Economics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He was awarded The Wiley TIM Distinguished Scholar Award by the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the American Academy of Management (2016) and the Penrose Prize of the European Academy of Management in 2022.
Professor Dosi is an internationally leading scholar in several fields including the economics of innovation and technological change, industrial economics, evolutionary theory, economic growth and development, and organization studies.
Summary
This work attempts to address two basic questions at the core of the whole economic discipline since its inception.
