Technological innovation and long wave theory: Two pieces of the puzzle

DeBresson, Chris

doi:10.1007/bf01236493

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“…They also allow the reader to observe how innovation affects multiple socioeconomic spheres. Since the classic contributions of Schumpeter's and Kuznets' models [18] or even Marx's perspective [19], it was reported how innovation can be disruptive for socio-economic systems, particularly novel technologies [20]. Precisely, some technological innovations can be defined as game changers [21], because their adoption deeply transforms the wide context in which both routines and interactions take place due to their connection with multiple elements of the socioeconomic system.…”

Section: The Digital Innovationmentioning

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The Digitalization of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Towards a Taxonomy of the Impacts

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The literature about digitalization in agriculture and rural areas is vast and sectorial at the same time. Both international political institutions and practitioners are interested in promoting digital technology, indicating and describing potential benefits and risks. Meanwhile, academics analyze the actual and possible impacts of digital technologies by using case studies. However, the extensive literature makes it challenging to derive a comprehensive synthesis of the possible impacts that digital technologies are and might generate in the rural domains. In the given context, the present work aims at contributing to the construction of a framework providing a first classification of the digital technologies’ impacts to use in both research and a political agenda.

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Section: The Digital Innovationmentioning

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The Digitalization of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Towards a Taxonomy of the Impacts

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“…The analysis of the evolution of communities in Section 4.4 indicates that most of the communities found have been remarkably stable over the period studied, suggesting that the structure of inter-sectoral patterns of innovation are, to a considerable extent, of long-term duration. This result further points to the existence of underlying proximities, e.g., relatedness in knowledge base and production linkages, that are likely to shape innovational interdependencies and to act as focusing devices for problem-solving or opportunity recognition, something which should be investigated further through comparison of inter-industrial flows of innovation and economic interdependencies (compare DeBresson 1991 ).…”

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Development blocks in innovation networks

Taalbi

2017

J Evol Econ

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The notion of development blocks (Dahmén, 1950, 1991) suggests the co-evolution of technologies and industries through complementarities and the overcoming of imbalances. This study proposes and applies a methodology to analyse development blocks empirically. To assess the extent and character of innovational interdependencies between industries the study combines analysis of innovation biographies and statistical network analysis. This is made possible by using data from a newly constructed innovation output database for Sweden. The study finds ten communities of closely related industries in which innovation activity has been prompted by the emergence of technological imbalances or by the exploitation of new technological opportunities. The communities found in the Swedish network of innovation are shown to be stable over time and often characterized by strong user-supplier interdependencies. These findings serve to stress how historical imbalances and opportunities are key to understanding the dynamics of the long-run development of industries and new technologies.

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“…Secondly the niche perspective is often associated to energygeneration systems (e.g. for transport or manufacturing) where "demonstration effects" are easier to conceive and measure [45,46]. 11 In the case of the intervertebral artificial disc the absence of clear results about clinical performance implies that hybridization is a sound and persistent design strategy.…”

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Whatever works: Uncertainty and technological hybrids in medical innovation

Barbera‐Tomás

Consoli

2012

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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The persistent uncertainty that looms over the search for solutions to health problems offers important conceptual insights for the study of technological change. This paper explores the notion of hybridization, namely the embodiment of multiple competing operational principles within a single medical device, as strategy to deal with the practical shortcomings due to said uncertainty. The history of the development of the hybrid artificial disk affords the elaboration of an alternative view of hybridization and, at the same time, the articulation of a dualism between medical science as area of basic research (e.g. what disease is) and as practical knowledge (e.g. how disease can be tackled).

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Technological innovation and long wave theory: Two pieces of the puzzle

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

The Digitalization of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Towards a Taxonomy of the Impacts

The Digitalization of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Towards a Taxonomy of the Impacts

Development blocks in innovation networks

Whatever works: Uncertainty and technological hybrids in medical innovation

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