in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown up on … ways they evolve over time. Another domain concerns the nature of competition in such industries, wherein innovation and … briefly flag some fundamental aspects of economic growth and development as an innovation-driven evolutionary process. …

"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The … paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost … "learning", or performance improvement over time is not a by-product of the mere repetition of the same production activities …

show that the industry - whose long - term evolution is driven by innovation, imitation and permanent creation of new …

This work prepared for B. Hall and N. Rosenberg (eds.) Handbook of Innovation, Elsevier (2010), lays out the basic … the firm in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown … innovation and diffusion affect growth and survival probabilities of heterogeneous firms, and, relatedly, the determinants of …