Change, Transformation and Development

Change, transformation and development.- i. Evolutionary processes.- Knowledge of growth and the growth of knowledge.- Bringing institutions into evolutionary growth theory.- Choice, chance, and necessity in the evolution of forms of economies.- ii. Demand, innovation and evolution.- Designing clunkers: demand-side innovation and the early history of the mountain bike.- iii. Transforming capabilities and organisations.- A resource-based view of Schumpeterian economic dynamics.- Transferring exploration and production activities within the UK's upstream oil and gas industry: a capabilities perspective.- Uncertainty, institutional structure and the entrepreneurial process.- iv. Schumpeter and the transformation of economic thought.- Weber, Schumpeter and Knight on entrepreneurship and economic development.- Connecting principles, new combinations, and routines: reflections inspired by Schumpeter and Smith.- v. Empirical studies.- Innovating routines in the business firm: what matters, what's staying the same, and what's changing?.- The emergence of a growth industry: a comparative analysis of the German, Dutch and Swedish wind turbine industries.- Intangible investment and human resources.- The dynamics of vertically-related industries. Innovation, entry and concentration.- The role of innovation and quality change in Japanese economic growth.- Entrepreneurs, innovations and market processes in the evolution of the Swedish mobile telecommunications industry.- The new geography of corporate research in Information and Communications Technology (ICT).- vi. Policy, transformation and development.- Technology transfer in United States universities.- What is the systems perspective to Innovation and Technology Policy(ITP) and how can we apply it to developing and newly industrialized economies?.- Knowledge production and distribution and the economics of high-tech consortia.