Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

“…The first noteworthy result is the strong significance of the patent variable across the vast majority of sectors. As expected, patented innovations appear to be important for competitiveness in sectors in which patents as a mean to appropriate returns from innovation play an important role (for the sectoral evidence see Levin et al, 1987 and the discussion in Dosi and Nelson, 2010). This is the case of the chemical sector and of the electrical and non-electrical machinery sectors, part of the "science-based" and the "specialised suppliers" categories according to Pavitt taxonomy (Pavitt, 1984).…”

“…Firms, irrespectively of the levels of disaggregation in terms of production activities, are highly heterogeneous on whatever measure chosen, both on the input and output sides, their efficiencies, degrees of innovativeness, market performances, even in presence of the same input prices (see, within an expanding literature, from Hildenbrand, 1981and Nelson, 1981to Bartelsman and Doms, 2000Dosi and Grazzi, 2006;Dosi, 2007;Dosi and Nelson, 2010;Syverson, 2011). Hence, any "representative agent" hypothesis, in our view, is sufficiently discredited not to deserve serious discussion.…”

“…The robust evidence about heterogeneity in firms performances along every dimension one is able to observe is extremely robust (see among the others Bartelsman and Doms, 2000;Dosi and Grazzi, 2006;Dosi and Nelson, 2010), and such heterogeneity holds also when only the subset of exporting firms is taken into account (Bernard and Jensen, 2004;Mayer et al, 2011;Greenaway and Kneller, 2007). One consequence is that estimates obtained at the aggregate level might not be isomorphic to what happens at the firm level.…”

Relationship Between Inflation and Real Economic Growth in Rwanda

“…Firms prosper or decline as a result of the interaction between their own learning activities, the learning activities of competitors and the external factors that set the premises for the interaction. We can find more on this in Dosi and Nelson (2010) and Metcalfe (1998). Safarzyńska (2010) also has an excellent survey.…”

Recent Economic Theorising on Innovation: Lessons for Analysing Social Innovation

“…When summarising the "evolution of science policy and innovation studies" (SPIS), Martin (2012Martin ( : 1230 also considers this school as part of mainstream economics: "Endogenous growth theory is perhaps better seen not so much as a contribution to SPIS but rather as a response by mainstream economists to the challenge posed by evolutionary economics." 21 On the nature of innovation, and how it is treated in economics, see also Dosi (1988b), (2013); Dosi and Grazzi (2010); Dosi and Nelson (2010); Dosi et al (eds) (1988); Metcalfe (1998), (2010); as well as Salter and Alexy (2014). 22 Arrow (1962) already discussed "The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing", and Rosenberg (1982) stressed the importance of learning by using (ch.…”