This text discusses the fundamental role played by qualitative change in economic development and the contribution made by technological change and innovation.

Presents the evolutionary perspective of the economy as perpetually moving, driven by innovation, and the empirical research this has guided.

The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and de

Technology has long been seen as a path to economic growth. However there is considerable debate about the exact nature of this relationship. Economics of Struc

This volume on evolutionary approaches to economic development and growth is a member of a family of special volumes that Springer has published on Evolu tionar