The Dynamics of Knowledge Externalities: Localized Technological Change in Italy

By Cristiano Antonelli and F. B. Amidei

Italian economic growth in the period between 1950 and 1992 was marked by very low levels of expenditure in R&D and high levels of productivity growth. This book implements the localized technological change approach to account for the role of knowledge externalities in the generation of new technological knowledge.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848441053
• ISBN13: 9781848441057
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 232 Pages