Economic Interdependence and Innovative Activity An Input Output Analysis

Debresson, Christian/ Andersen, Esben Sloth

ISBN 10: 1858983886 / ISBN 13: 9781858983882

Published by Edward Elgar Pub, 1996

About this Item

438 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Economic Interdependence and Innovative Activity An Input Output Analysis
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858983886
• ISBN 13: 9781858983882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.83 kilograms

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Synopsis

How does innovation emerge from normal economic activity? Economic Interdependence and Innovative Activity is an original new book which tries to answer this question by reconciling inter-industrial analysis with the study of innovation.

This book provides a bridge between economic statics and the dynamics of growth and development. As well as offering important and original empirical data for Canada, France, Italy, Greece and China, the authors make a series of theoretical advances and propose a new way to observe the innovative process as well as new analytical tools to examine innovative activity. Their central thesis is that innovative outputs emerge out of increased social interaction, and division of labour through cooperative networks. An authoritative theoretical introduction and some thought-provoking conclusions have been prepared by Christian DeBresson.

Economic Interdependence and Innovative Activity encourage input-output economists to encompass innovative activities in dynamic models and innovation researchers to look at technical interdependencies.

About the Author

The late Christian DeBresson, formerly Professor of Management and Economics of Technological Change, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada