Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change

Edited by Cristiano Antonelli, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", University of Torino and Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy

• Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION1. The Economic Complexity of Technological Change: Knowledge Interaction and Path DependenceCristiano AntonelliPART II: THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF INNOVATION2. Complexity and Innovation DynamicsDavid A. Lane 3. Complexity in the Theory of the Developing FirmHarry Bloch and Stan Metcalfe 4. The Persistence of Innovation and Path DependenceAlessandra Colombelli and Nick von Tunzelmann 5. The Symbiotic Theory of Innovation: Knowledge Creation and the Evolution of the Capitalist SystemMartin Fransman PART III: THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF KNOWLEDGE6. Knowledge, Complexity and NetworksPier Paolo Saviotti 7. The Dynamics of Technological Knowledge: From Linearity to RecombinationJackie Krafft and Francesco Quatraro 8. Complexity and the Coordination of Technological Knowledge: The Case of Innovation PlatformsDavide Consoli and Pier Paolo Patrucco9. Causes, Consequences and Dynamics of ‘Complex’ Distributions of Technological Activities: The Case of Prolific InventorsWilliam Latham and Christian Le Bas10. The Biomedical Workforce in the US: An Example of Positive FeedbacksPaula E. Stephan11. University–Industry Interactions: The Unresolved PuzzleIsabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Aldo Geuna and Federica Rossi12. A Functional Theory of Technology and Technological Change Andrea Bonaccorsi PART IV: THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT13. Mesoeconomics: A Unified Approach to Systems Complexity and Evolution Kurt Dopfer 14. Notes on a Complexity Theory of Economic DevelopmentKoen Frenken and Ron Boschma15. Innovation Networks: Formation, Performance and DynamicsUwe Cantner and Holger Graf16. The Complex Interaction between Global Production Networks, Digital Information Systems and International Knowledge TransfersJarle Hildrum, Dieter Ernst and Jan Fagerberg 17. The Complex Dynamics of Economic DevelopmentVerónica Robert and Gabriel Yoguel PART V: LESSONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC POLICY18. Coevolution, Emergence and Economic Development: Some Lessons from the Israeli and Mexican ExperienceGabriela Dutrénit and Morris Teubal 19. Network Models of Innovation Process and Policy ImplicationsPaul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell and Greg Wiltshire 20. Government as Entrepreneur: Examples from US Technology PolicyAlbert N. Link and Jamie R. LinkIndex

’The editor of this Handbook, Cristiano Antonelli, is to commended for the high quality of the group of authors he has assembled for this project. They provide excellent coverage of the various areas within the field, covering complexity of innovation, complexity of knowledge, complexity of structural change and development, and lessons and implications for economic policy. This is an important and evolving topic, and this book captures the cutting edge of research on it, particularly in connection with the broader idea of economic complexity.’