Branching innovation, recombinant innovation, and endogenous technological transitions

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-35

  Frenken, Koen ^a   Izquierdo, Luis R ^b   Zeppini, Paolo ^a,c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lock in; Network externalities; Punctuated change; Switching costs; Variety

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INNOVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECOMBINATION; SEED; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 84867747350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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