Technical change, growth and trade: new departures in institutional economics
This article analyses the main theoretical and policy issues emerging from the literature on the evolutionary-institutional economics of technical change, the four distinguishing characteristics of which are that technology is often proprietary in nature; only a part of knowledge is codifiable in ha...
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| author | Archibugi, D Michie, J |
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| description | This article analyses the main theoretical and policy issues emerging from the literature on the evolutionary-institutional economics of technical change, the four distinguishing characteristics of which are that technology is often proprietary in nature; only a part of knowledge is codifiable in handbooks, blueprints, patents, and so on; there are fundamental variations in the above two points across different technological fields; and the evolution of knowledge is highly path-dependent. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b2d27088-31e7-44ce-8871-84c05d83a8272022-03-27T04:14:28ZTechnical change, growth and trade: new departures in institutional economicsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b2d27088-31e7-44ce-8871-84c05d83a827EconomicsEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetBlackwell Publishing1998Archibugi, DMichie, JThis article analyses the main theoretical and policy issues emerging from the literature on the evolutionary-institutional economics of technical change, the four distinguishing characteristics of which are that technology is often proprietary in nature; only a part of knowledge is codifiable in handbooks, blueprints, patents, and so on; there are fundamental variations in the above two points across different technological fields; and the evolution of knowledge is highly path-dependent. |
| spellingShingle | Economics Archibugi, D Michie, J Technical change, growth and trade: new departures in institutional economics |
| title | Technical change, growth and trade: new departures in institutional economics |
| title_full | Technical change, growth and trade: new departures in institutional economics |
| title_fullStr | Technical change, growth and trade: new departures in institutional economics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Technical change, growth and trade: new departures in institutional economics |
| title_short | Technical change, growth and trade: new departures in institutional economics |
| title_sort | technical change growth and trade new departures in institutional economics |
| topic | Economics |
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