Overview
This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyze the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and Marshallian legacies. The Handbook elaborates the notion of innovation as an emerging property of the organized complexity of an economic system, and provides the basic tools to understand the recursive dynamics between the emergence of innovation and the unfolding of organized complexity. In so doing, it highlights the role of organizational thinking in explaining the introduction of innovations and the dynamics of structural change. With a new methodological approach to the economics of technological change, this wide-ranging volume will become the standard reference for postgraduates, academics and practitioners in the fields of evolutionary economics, complexity economics and the economics of innovation.
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Author: Cristiano Antonelli
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9780857930927
ISBN 10: 0857930923
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 28 June 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'A series of in-depth critical insights on the nature and role of organizational thinking and the dynamics of structural change are discussed in a new methodological approach that provides academics with a scholarly discussion of evolutionary economics... The editor... provides an international symposium of collected research and knowledge key to any college-level discussion of technology and economics.' - The Midwest Book Review 'Antonelli's Handbook is an impressive compendium of theoretical approaches to complexity in economics that has emerged during the last two decades... this Handbook is an amazing excursus on the state of the art of complexity thinking in the economics of technological change. Not only did the compendium reinforce the achievements of other theory textbooks in this field; it also paves the way for a normalisation of complexity in economics. It strongly defends the advantage of operationalization and applied research in economics and touches upon important policy implications. Therefore, it is a must-read both for the scientist and for the policy researcher in the field of innovation and technological change.' - Manfred Paier, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 'The editor of this Handbook, Cristiano Antonelli, is to be commended for the high quality of the group of authors he has assembled for this project. They provide excellent coverage of the various areas within the field, covering complexity of innovation, complexity of knowledge, complexity of structural change and development, and lessons and implications for economic policy. This is an important and evolving topic, and this book captures the cutting edge of research on it, particularly in connection with the broader idea of economic complexity.' - J. Barkley Rosser, Jr, James Madison University, US
'... My overall impression of the Handbook is very favourable. It gives a broad overview of the different topics addressed by complexity economics, especially with regard to innovation and knowledge management. Knowledge and innovation are treated as the emergent properties of a system in which heterogeneous actors interact in different ways at different levels: the ?rm (meso), the individual (micro), and society (macro). Both Antonelli's and Bonaccorsi's chapters are treasure troves of concepts and ideas, although not necessarily for the complexity novice. Lane's chapter, however, provides an excellent introduction... For researchers in the ?eld of economics and those that are interested in 'complexity in the real world', this Handbook provides ample discussion and research roads ahead.' -- Andreas Ligtvoet, Science and Public Policy 'A series of in-depth critical insights on the nature and role of organizational thinking and the dynamics of structural change are discussed in a new methodological approach that provides academics with a scholarly discussion of evolutionary economics... The editor... provides an international symposium of collected research and knowledge key to any college-level discussion of technology and economics.' -- The Midwest Book Review 'Antonelli's Handbook is an impressive compendium of theoretical approaches to complexity in economics that has emerged during the last two decades... this Handbook is an amazing excursus on the state of the art of complexity thinking in the economics of technological change. Not only did the compendium reinforce the achievements of other theory textbooks in this field; it also paves the way for a normalisation of complexity in economics. It strongly defends the advantage of operationalization and applied research in economics and touches upon important policy implications. Therefore, it is a must-read both for the scientist and for the policy researcher in the field of innovation and technological change.' -- Manfred Paier, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 'The editor of this Handbook, Cristiano Antonelli, is to be commended for the high quality of the group of authors he has assembled for this project. They provide excellent coverage of the various areas within the field, covering complexity of innovation, complexity of knowledge, complexity of structural change and development, and lessons and implications for economic policy. This is an important and evolving topic, and this book captures the cutting edge of research on it, particularly in connection with the broader idea of economic complexity.' -- J. Barkley Rosser, Jr, James Madison University, US
`. . . My overall impression of the Handbook is very favourable. It gives a broad overview of the different topics addressed by complexity economics, especially with regard to innovation and knowledge management. Knowledge and innovation are treated as the emergent properties of a system in which heterogeneous actors interact in different ways at different levels: the firm (meso), the individual (micro), and society (macro). Both Antonelli's and Bonaccorsi's chapters are treasure troves of concepts and ideas, although not necessarily for the complexity novice. Lane's chapter, however, provides an excellent introduction. . . For researchers in the field of economics and those that are interested in `complexity in the real world', this Handbook provides ample discussion and research roads ahead.' -- Andreas Ligtvoet, Science and Public Policy `A series of in-depth critical insights on the nature and role of organizational thinking and the dynamics of structural change are discussed in a new methodological approach that provides academics with a scholarly discussion of evolutionary economics. . . The editor. . . provides an international symposium of collected research and knowledge key to any college-level discussion of technology and economics.' -- The Midwest Book Review `Antonelli's Handbook is an impressive compendium of theoretical approaches to complexity in economics that has emerged during the last two decades. . . this Handbook is an amazing excursus on the state of the art of complexity thinking in the economics of technological change. Not only did the compendium reinforce the achievements of other theory textbooks in this field; it also paves the way for a normalisation of complexity in economics. It strongly defends the advantage of operationalization and applied research in economics and touches upon important policy implications. Therefore, it is a must-read both for the scientist and for the policy researcher in the field of innovation and technological change.' -- Manfred Paier, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation `The editor of this Handbook, Cristiano Antonelli, is to be commended for the high quality of the group of authors he has assembled for this project. They provide excellent coverage of the various areas within the field, covering complexity of innovation, complexity of knowledge, complexity of structural change and development, and lessons and implications for economic policy. This is an important and evolving topic, and this book captures the cutting edge of research on it, particularly in connection with the broader idea of economic complexity.' -- J. Barkley Rosser, Jr, James Madison University, US
Author Information
"Edited by Cristiano Antonelli, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics ""Cognetti de Martiis"", University of Torino and Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy"
