Volume 28 Issue 1 (2010)
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An inductive model of technological progress
The purposes of this paper are threefold: to suggest a conceptual scheme which encompasses innovations and improvements in industry; to express this scheme in the mathematical form of Poisson jump…
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Failure to advance: resource logic for early venture failure
New ventures play an important role in economic growth. The resource logic underlying how these firms develop in the early stages, however, has not received adequate attention in the literature.…
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Dialectics of design: how ideas of ‘good design’ change
This paper advances a first‐pass theory of change in the styling of objects of domestic utility. It is based on the idea that the expressive potential of design for the…
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The economic implications of alternative publishing models
A knowledge economy has been defined as one in which the generation and exploitation of knowledge has come to play the predominant part in the creation of wealth. It is…