The Evolution of Technologies: An Assessment of the State-of-the-Art

Eurasian Business Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-46

  Dosi, Giovanni ^a   Nelson, Richard R ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriability; Evolution; Innovation; Innovation Diffusion; Opportunity; Path Dependence; Technological Paradigms; Technological Taxonomies; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897983198     PISSN: 13094297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14208/BF03353816     Document Type: Article

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