Module overview

This module is about the economics of innovation and technical change

Syllabus + assignment

Focus areas

Assignment

Group presentation

IIPP008: Essay: AMR

Week one: What is the place of innovation in economic theory?

Notes

Lecture + seminar notes // 02.10.23

Essential reading

G.Dosi, The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies: Part One: Innovation, Organisation and industrial dynamics, 2023

Prendergast, The Role of Knowledge in Economic Life — From Bacon to Marshall, 2023

Additional reading

Stephan, The Economics of Science, 1996

Penrose, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1995

Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, 1974

Week two: An industrial organisation approach to innovation