Overview
- Investigates economic growth and its fluctuation as a historical process of economic evolution
- Explores the fact that economic systems are complex adaptive systems
- Primary focus on the interconnected processes of innovation and entrepreneurship
- Written by experts in the fields of evolutionary economics and the economics of innovation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Economic Complexity and Evolution (ECAE)
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Table of contents(23 chapters)
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The Evolution of Economic Systems
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The Evolution of Innovation Systems
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Chair for Economics of Innovation, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Andreas Pyka
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School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
John Foster
About the editors
Andreas Pyka is Professor of Economics and holds the chair of innovation economics at the Business and Economics Faculty of the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany. He has degrees in management sciences and economics (University of Augsburg) and he received his PhD from the University of Augsburg. His main fields of research are industrial dynamics, Neo-Schumpeterian Economics and innovation networks drawing on numerical approaches, in particular agent-based modeling.
John Foster is Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Fellow of the Academy of Social Science in Australia, Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, Director of the UQ Energy Economics and Management Group and past President of the International J.A. Schumpeter Society. He has degrees in Business (Coventry University) and Economics (University of Manchester); he received his PhD from the University of Manchester. His current research areas include: the macroeconomy as a complex adaptive system; evolutionary modeling of economic growth; the application of self-organization theory to statistical/econometric modeling in the presence of structural transition; the economics of innovation, the economics of renewable energy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems
Editors: Andreas Pyka, John Foster
Series Title: Economic Complexity and Evolution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13299-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13298-3Published: 25 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36698-2Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13299-0Published: 03 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2199-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 641
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Growth, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Innovation/Technology Management, Industrial Organization, Entrepreneurship