Competing technologies, technological monopolies and the rate of convergence to a stable market structure

New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honour of Paul A. David

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 23-50

  Bassanini, Andrea P ^a   Dosi, Giovanni ^b  

^a OECD   (France)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

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