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The Economic Complexity of Technological Change: Knowledge Interaction and Path Dependence

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This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse 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.

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  • Cristiano Antonelli, 2011. "The Economic Complexity of Technological Change: Knowledge Interaction and Path Dependence," Chapters, in: Cristiano Antonelli (ed.),Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change, chapter 1, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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