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Milieux innovateurs and collective learning: from concepts to measurement

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In this paper, economic space is defined as a relational space, the field of social interactions, interpersonal synergies and social collective actions that determine the innovative capability and the economic success of specific local areas.
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Since the middle eighties a new theoretical approach to the study of local innovative behaviour has been developed, centred upon the concept of the innovative milieu;2 in this approach, economic space is defined as a “relational space”, the field of social interactions, interpersonal synergies and social collective actions that determine the innovative capability and the economic success of specific local areas.

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Technological paradigms and technological trajectories: A suggested interpretation of the determinants and directions of technical change

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a model to account for both continuous changes and discontinuities in technological innovation, and define the process of selection of new technological paradigms among a greater set of notionally possible ones.
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Issues in assessing the contribution of research and development to productivity growth

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the production function approach to the estimation of the returns to R&D and then discuss in turn two very difficult problems: the measurement of output in R&DI intensive industries and the definition and measurement of the stock of R&DC 'capital'.
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Transcendental logarithmic production frontiers

TL;DR: Ebsco as mentioned in this paper focuses on additive and homogeneous production possibility frontiers that have played an important role in formulating statistical tests of the theory of production and characterizes the class of production possibility frontier that are homogeneous and additive.