Eco-Mechanisms Within Economic Evolution – Schumpeterian Approach

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Supporting eco-innovations and economic eco-activities is one of a very important challenge to decision makers. The above is related to the problem of specification of mechanisms resulting in introducing eco-innovations.The original vision of the economic evolution determined by innovation was firstly presented by Joseph Schumpeter who identified essential innovative changes as well as indicated different mechanisms governing the economic evolution.The aim of the paper is to suggest a cohesive topological approach maintained in the stream of Schumpeter’s thought, to study changes in the economy, which result in the elimination of at least one harmful commodity or technology from the market, by incorporating Hurwicz apparatus in a suitably modified competitive economy.Qualitative properties of mechanisms which can occur within the economic evolution are also analyzed.<jats:italic>JEL</jats:italic>: D41, D50, O31</jats:p>