Amazon.com description: Product Description: Economists, industrial engineers, and scholars of management, most from Europe, examine recent trends in analyzing knowledge and technology from an evolutionary perspective, based on the belief that such an approach can help a company maintain a competitive advantage in the global economy. They look in particular at innovation strategies in an artificial industry, the empirical performance of a new inter-industry technology spillover measure, evidence from joint patent activity on the effects of productive and technological specialization on inter-firm technological cooperation, Ericsson and mobile telecommunications as an example of surviving technological discontinuities through evolutionary systems of innovation, and other topics. The volume is produced in conjunction with the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)