Technologies as problem-solving procedures and technologies as input-output relations: Some perspectives on the theory of production

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 173-202

  Dosi, Giovanni ^a   Grazzi, Marco ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33645149358     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtj010     Document Type: Article

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