A functional theory of technology and technological change

Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 286-337

  Bonaccorsi, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4337/9780857930378.00019     Document Type: Chapter

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