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Johann Peter Murmann has published an inductive case study entitled Coevolution of Industries and Important Features of Their Environments. Using a comparative historical method and drawing on evidence from five countries over a 60-year period, this paper spells out how…
Read more →The Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School will put on a new week-long workshop for emerging scholars in the field. The workshop is designed for scholars ranging from students who are completing the second year of doctoral…
Read more →In 2007, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates appeared for a joint interview at the Wall Street Journal “All Things Digital Conference.” The provide fascinating insights into the strategic thought of tow chief protagonists of the PC revolution in computing. Watch…
Read more →Evolutionists predict that firm failures rates are high. I have reported failure rates ranging from 61 to 88% for the synthetic dye industry in different countries (Murmann & Homburg, 2001). 75% percent of all new ventures are often reported without…
Read more →The product development at Saturday Night Life is perfectly consistent with the evolutionary predictions: Through out the week, that writing team comes up with about 800 jokes. On Friday night, they sit together and whittle it all the way down…
Read more →Chris Freeman, one of the great scholars of the economics of science and technology, has died. Read the remembrances of colleagues, students and readers here. Luc Soete’s, for example, writes: Over those fifty or so last years Chris influenced thousands…
Read more →Edge.org published a stimulating interview with W. Brian Arthur on his new book, The Nature of Technology. After autobiographical comments that may not interest all readers, Arthur gives an overview how the economy evolves as a consequence of postiive and…
Read more →The full program of the Schumpeter Society Meeting in Aalborg, Denkmark is now posted. Update June 22: Full papers of conferene are available here. Photos from the Conference are now up. Gallery 1 Gallery 2
Read more →Agnus Maddison died. What economic historian has not relied on his historical GDP time series? Read the informative obituary in the Economist.
Read more →A workshop bringing together Business Historians and Evolutionary Economists is taking place at Trinity College in Dublin. Oveview information on the workshop and the presentation sldies have been posted in the discussion forum.
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