Essays
Festschrift
FESTSCHRIFT, Published 2009
Techno-Economic Paradigms: Essays In Honour of Carlota Perez
Editors/Publisher ...
Wolfgang Drechsler, Rainer Kattel, Erik S. Reinert (eds.) Published by The Anthem; Other Canon Series 2009 ISBN 13:978 1 84331 785 2
Prologue ...
Techno-economic paradigm shifts are at the core of general, innovation-based theory of economic and societal development as conceived by Carlota Perez. Her book on the subject, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, is a seminal enunciation of the theory, and has had immense influence on business strategy, national and international development programmes, and academic research on the subject.
Techno-Economic Paradigms presents a series of essays by the leading academics in the field discussing the theory of techno-economic paradigm shifts, and its role in explaining processes of innovation and development. This festschrift honours Carlota Perez.
Wolfgang Drechsler is Professor and Chair of Governance, Rainer Kattel is Professor and Chair of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance, and ,Erik S. Reinert is Professor of Technology Governance and Development Strategies at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. Reinert is also Chairman of The Other Canon Foundation, Norway.
Table of Contents ...
Preface Wolfgang Drechsler, Rainer Kattel and Erik S. Reinert |
IX | |
1. | Introduction: Carlota Perez and Evolutionary Economics Rainer Kattel with Wolfgang Drechsler and Erik S. Reinert |
1 |
2. | Developing Innovation Capability: Meeting the Policy Challenge John Bessant and Howard Rush |
19 |
3. | Slow Food, Slow Growth … Slow ICT: The Vision of Ambient Intelligence Jean-Claude Burgelman |
39 |
4. | Technical Change and Structural Inequalities: Converging Approaches to Problems of Underdevelopment José Eduardo Cassiolato, Carlos Bianchi Pagola and Helena Maria Martins Lastres |
51 |
5. | The New Techno-Economic Paradigm and its Impact on Industrial Structure Giovanni Dosi, Alfonso Gambardella, Marco Grazzi and Luigi Orsenigo |
69 |
6. | Governance in and of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts: Considerations for and from the Nanotechnology Surge Wolfgang Drechsler |
95 |
7. | Innovation Policy and Incentives Structure: Learning from the Mexican Case Gabriela Dutrénit and Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz |
105 |
8. | Schumpeter’s Business Cycles and Techno-Economic Paradigms Christopher Freeman |
125 |
9. | Asian Innovation Experiences and Latin American Visions: Exploiting Shifts in Techno-Economic Paradigms Michael Hobday |
145 |
10. | Doing Capitalism: Notes on the Practice of Venture Capitalism (Revised and Extended) William H. Janeway |
171 |
11. | Small States, Innovation and Techno-Economic Paradigms Rainer Kattel |
189 |
12. | Financial Experimentation, Technological Paradigm Revolutions and Financial Crises Jan Kregel |
203 |
13. | Why the New Economy is a Learning Economy Bengt-Åke Lundvall |
221 |
14. | The Art of Macro-Qualitative Modelling: An Exploration of Perez’ Sequence Model of Great Surges Lars Mjøset |
239 |
15. | Technology, Institutions and Economic Development Richard R. Nelson |
269 |
16. | Techno-Economic Paradigms and the Migration (Relocation) of Industries to the Peripheries Keith Nurse |
287 |
17. | On the Discreet Charm of the (Rentier) Bourgeoisie: The Contradictory Nature of the Installation Period of a New Techno-Economic Paradigm José Gabriel Palma |
307 |
18. | Production-Based Economic Theory and the Stages of Economic Development: From Tacitus to Carlota Perez Erik S. Reinert |
333 |
19. | Carlota Perez’ Contribution to the Research Programme in Public Management: Understanding and Managing the Process of Creative Destruction in Public Institutions and Organizations Claude Rochet |
373 |
20. | Carlota Perez – Her Biography and the Origins of her Ideas Erik S. Reinert and Benjamin Sagalovsky |
395 |
Notes | 407 | |
Bibliography Carlota Perez | 421 | |
VIII TECHNO-ECONOMIC PARADIGMS |