Economics of Innovation, New Technologies and Structural Change

• 1. IntroductionPart 1: The Building Blocks2. Shifting Heuristics in the Economics of Innovation3. The Retrieval of the Economics of Technical ChangePart 2: Innovation and Structural Change4. Composition Effects: The Direction of Technological Change and its Context of Introduction5. New Technologies and Structural Change: Constraints and Inducements to Innovation6. Industrial Dynamics and Technological Change7. The Dynamics of Factors Markets and Technological Change8. Production Innovation and Barriers to Entry9. Relative Prices and International Competition in the Global Economy10. Feed-backs Path Dependence and EvolutionPart 3: Application and Implications11. Understanding the Economics of New Information and Communication Technology in the Global Economy12. Policy Implications: An European Perspective13. Conclusions

'Overall, the book should be recommended to any scholar's bookshelf where technological and structural change are of interest. For the many who believe in such an interdependence, this work is obligatory reading and a highly valuable teaching and reference aid.'- Research Policy