Product Description: Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A...read more

Product Description: This book provides a critical assessment of progress towards the Information Society. Drawing upon unique empirical data, this book lays the foundation for more useful theories of the process of change, and more effective strategies and policies for increasing the benefits from the Information Society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For almost as long as computers have been used in business, people have speculated about their effect on economic productivity. If computers can do certain things faster, and less expensively than people, the standard argument runs, replacing employees with computers will speed business up at the same time as reducing costs...read more