The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries has witnessed major progress in
several areas. In the last years, several contributions at the empirical, appreciative …

In his previous Schumpeter Prize-winning work, Lee analysed the'middle-income trap', in
which a developing country grows strongly only to plateau at a certain point. Yet certain …

The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic
organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and development …

Alfred Chandler's portrayal of the managerial revolution of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries does not extend well into the late twentieth century, when widespread …

The paper addresses disruptive changes that globalization imposes on the geography of
innovation systems, and identifies potential benefits that developing countries could reap …

Although the inventions embodied in the Internet originated in a diverse set of industrial
economies, the US was consistently the source of critical innovations and an early adopter …

This paper examines how the knowledge-based view (KBV) can be applied to firm boundary
decisions and the performance implications of those decisions. At the center of the paper is …

Although an increasing number of studies of technological, institutional and organizational
change refer to the concepts of path dependence and path creation, few attempts have been …

The history of a number of industries is marked by a succession of eras, associated with
different dominant technologies. Within any era, industry concentration tends to grow …

We investigate the dynamic and qualitative nature of technological change in 96 countries
between 1980 and 2021 from a structuralist technology upgrading perspective. First …