Localised Technological Change : Towards the Economics of Complexity (Paperback)

1. Introduction  Part 1: The Ingredients  2. The Classical Legacy: Smith, Marx and Schumpeter  3. Localized Technological Change: A Critical Assessment  Part 2: The Governance of Localized Technological Knowledge  4. Models of Knowledge and Systems of Governance  5. The New Dimensions of Knowledge Indivisibility: Cumulability, Compositeness, Fungeability and Stickiness  6. Knowledge and the Theory of the Firm: The Interdependence Among Transaction, Coordination and Production  7. Technological Knowledge and the Theory of the Firm: Idiosyncratic Path Dependence and the Quest for an Economics of Distinctive Competences  8. To Use or to Sell Technological Knowledge  9. The Governance of Localized Knowledge  10. The Economics of University: A Knowledge Governance Approach  11. Towards Non-Exclusive Property Rights: Knowledge as an Essential Facility  Part 3: The Introduction of Localized Technological Change  12. Localized Technological Change: The Benchmark  13. The System Dynamics of Collective Knowledge: From Gradualism and Saltationism to Punctuated Change  14. Localized Technological Change and Factor Markets: Constraints and Inducements to Innovation  15. Localized Product Innovation: The Role of Proximity in the Lancastrian Product Space  16. Diffusion as a Process of Creative Adoption  17. Path Dependence and the Quest for Complex Dynamics  18. Conclusion: Hysteresis and Creativity