“…In the ever-transforming context of economic science, standard neoclassical economics is still attached to the belief that critical development issues, such as poverty, technological change, political power, crisis, innovation, and other socio-economic dimensions, lie externally to the scope of -pure‖ economics (Nelson et al, 2018;Nelson & Winter, 1974;Vlados, 2019c). On the contrary, contemporary evolutionary and neo-Schumpeterian theorizations perceive development as a historic, multiform, and dynamic process of both qualitative transformations, implemented within an ever-altering framework of evolving social forms and political priorities (Andersen, 2009;Boulding, 1981;Chatzinikolaou & Vlados, 2019;Rahmeyer, 2016;Winter, 2006).…”