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Economics of localized technological change: a model of creative adoption

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The traditional divide between innovation, adoption and imitation is questioned in the context of the economics of localized technological change. Firms are induced to change their technology when product and factor markets conditions do not meet their expectations and irreversible choices make adjustments expensive. Technological change is the result of the combination of research and search activities that lead to both the introduction of new technologies and to imitative adoptions. Both command resources and engender specific revenues. Localized technological change consists of creative adoption where external knowledge and embodied technologies are implemented with internal competence and idiosyncratic knowledge acquired by means of learning processes. The identification of the net profitability of adoption as defined by the gross profitability of adoption minus adoption costs contributes the economics of technological change. The analysis of the evolution of the net profitability of adoption in the context of the economics of localized technological change shows that the dynamics of creative adoption is able to generate a s-shaped diffusion path at the aggregate level.

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Paper provided by University of Turin in its series Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis" LEI & BRICK - Laboratorio di economia dell'innovazione "Franco Momigliano", Bureau of Research in Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge, Collegio Carlo Alberto. WP series with number 200403.

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Date of creation: Mar 2004
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  1. Davide Consoli, 2005. "Changing boundaries and structure of a technological system: lessons from UK retail banking," Industrial Organization 0506006, EconWPA.
  2. Davide Consoli, 2005. "Changing boundaries and structure of a technological system: lessons from UK retail banking," Development and Comp Systems 0506004, EconWPA.
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  4. Elina Berghäll, 2006. "R&D and Productivity Growth in Finnish ICT Manufacturing," Discussion Papers 388, Government Institute for Economic Research Finland (VATT).

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