Is product life cycle theory a special case? Dominant designs and the emergence of market niches through coevolutionary-learning

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 109-134

  Windrum, Paul ^a   Birchenhall, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation product life cycle; Learning algorithm; Market niches; Population beaming; Technological

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001021817     PISSN: 0954349X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-349X(97)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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