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Economic-Evolution.net is a website whose goal is to be the premier information site for people interested in empirical research on economic change. A sister web site, Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences, is dedicated to theoretical research. Both webistes are…
Read more →TDA (Transition Data Analysis) is a software tool to analyze statistically transitions between categories, for example stages in a persons career or the life course of a firm . TDA was developed by Ulrich.Poetter and Goetz.Rohwer at Bochum University in…
Read more →The Comparative Industry Studies (CIS) Project Evolutionary economists have articulated powerful theories about how industries change. During the last twenty years economists, sociologists, and business school scholars have begun to study empirically how particular industries develop over long periods of…
Read more →For a number of years, we have planned a complementary website to Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences that would serve as a central resource and meeting place for people who interested in empirical research on economic change. The English…
Read more →Johann Peter Murmann compares the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain, Germany, and the United States through the lenses of evolutionary theory. As Murmann demonstrates, a complex coevolutionary process linking firms, technology, and national institutions resulted in very different…
Read more →Timur Kuran has written a fascinating paper on Why the Middle East is economically underdeveloped. Anyone interested in social evolution will find this timely paper worth reading. Download Paper
Read more →The flat panel display (FPD) industry was the first new manufacturing industry to fully emerge in a global economy defined more by trade in knowledge than in physical products. Drawing upon interviews with over 160 managers and scientists from around the world…
Read more →The book explains how decisions about location helped US firms achieve global dominance in the hard disk drive industry. Details how American firms were able to develop two complementary industry clusters, with fundamental research and product development concentrated in the US (principally…
Read more →A Workshop on Adaptation vs. Selection in Industrial Change will take place at the Academy of Management Meeting in New Orleans, August 7, 2004.
Read more →In The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr argues that the growth explosion in the modern West in the past two centuries was driven not just by the appearance of new technological ideas but also by the improved access to these ideas in…
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