Malerba, Franco, Nelson, Richard, Orsenigo, Luigi, Winter, Sidney
In this article, we present a history-friendly model of the changing vertical scope of computer firms during the evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is...
FORESIGHT, COMPLEXITY AND STRATEGY (2007)
David Lane, Robert Maxfield, Win Farrell, Dick Foster, John Hagel, Franco Malerba, ...
What is a strategy? The answer to this question ought to depend on the foresight horizon: how far ahead, and how much, the strategist thinks he can foresee. When the very structure of the firm's...
Malerba, Franco, Nelson, Richard, Orsenigo, Luigi, Winter, Sidney
In this paper we present a history-friendly model of the changing vertical scope of computer firms during the evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is "history friendly",...
Dosi, Giovanni, Malerba, Franco, Ramello, Giovanni, Silva, Francesco
This introduction sets in context the works that follow, which are meant to take stock of the theoretical advances and also historical changes since the seminal Arrow (1962) and Nelson (1959). First,...
Dosi, Giovanni, Malerba, Franco, Ramello, Giovanni B., Silva, Francesco
This introduction sets in context the works that follow, which are meant to take stock of the theoretical advances and also historical changes since the seminal Arrow (1962) and Nelson (1959). First,...
Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi
This paper is a first attempt at modelling the long-term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a history-friendly way. The model examines the relationships...
Sectoral systems are in continuous change and transformation. During the evolution of sectoral systems change and transformation may occur in the technological and learning regimes and in the...
Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi
This paper is a first attempt at modelling the long‐term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a history‐friendly way. The model examines the...
History-Friendly Models: an Overview of the Case of the Computer Industry (2001)
Malerba, Franco, Nelson, Richard, Orsenigo, Luigi, Winter, Sidney G.
This paper presents and discusses the methodological rationale, the basic structure and some first results of a new approach to the analysis of processes of industry evolution: "history-friendly"...
Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo
Innovation Systems) Project. I.
Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Richard Nelson (2001)
Cohen, Wesley, Malerba, Franco, Mowery, David, Winter, Sidney
Is the Tendency to Variation a Chief Cause of Progress? (2001)
Cohen, Wesley M., Malerba, Franco
This paper briefly reviews the sources of the diversity of innovative activity within industries, and interprets the literature to suggest that there are three ways in which such diversity may...
Industrial Structures and Dynamics: Evidence, Interpretations and Puzzles (1997)
DOSI, GIOVANNI, MALERBA, FRANCO, MARSILI, ORIETTA, ORSENIGO, LUIGI
Technological Regimes and Sectoral Patterns of Innovative Activities (1997)
MALERBA, FRANCO, ORSENIGO, LUIGI
This paper focuses on the relationships between observed patterns of innovative activities within a sector and the related context and underlying microeconomic processes that might account fur them....
David Lane, Franco Malerba, Robert Maxfield, Michael Cohen, Jim Dickey, Stuart Dreyfus, ...
In this essay, we argue that rational choice (RC) provides an inadequate foundation for a theory of economic action. After defining RC sufficiently broadly to encompass much of the bounded...
The Dynamics and Evolution of Industries (1996)
MALERBA, FRANCO, ORSENIGO, LUIGI
The empirical evidence, the major stylized facts, the current explanations and the relevant unanswered questions concerning the dynamics and evolution of industrial structure are discussed in this...
Schumpeterian patterns of innovation (1995)
Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi
Using patent data for four countries (Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy) for the period 1968–1986, the authors find that the patterns of innovative activities differ systematically across...
Technological Regimes and Firm Bebavior (1993)
MALERBA, FRANCO, ORSENIGO, LUIGI
This paper examines the relationship between firm behavior (in terms of basic strategies and organization) and tecbnological regimes (defined in terms of opportunity, appropriability and...
Este trabajo presenta los resultados de una investigación comparativa sobre las actividades de innovación. en base a las patentes registradas por cuatro países europeos: Alemania, Francia, Italia...
Innovation and the evolution of industries
The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries evolution has witnessed major progress in several areas. Contributions at the empirical, appreciative, econometric and modelling levels have...
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo
The history of a number of industries is marked by a succession of eras, associated with different dominant technologies. Within any era, industry concentration tends to grow. Particular eras are...
History-Friendly Models: an Overview of the Case of the Computer Industry
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney G. Winter
This paper presents and discusses the methodological rationale, the basic structure and some first results of a new approach to the analysis of processes of industry evolution: "history-friendly"...
High tecnology and the evolution of the italian industrial system.
Camillo Bussolati, Franco Malerba, Salvatore Torrisi
This paper analyses the Italian industrial dynamics, both at the sectorial and at the corporate level. It also examines the evolution of particular firms or projects, determining what different...
Knowledge Flows, Structure of Innovative Activity and International Specialization
Franco Malerba, Fabio Montobbio
This paper is a first attempt towards the full inclusion of a group of variables greatly studied in the current literature on innovation and industrial economics -such as knowledge links and the...
Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo
In this paper we present a model of the long term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a history friendly way. Our results show a strong increase in...
Technological Regimes and Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation.
Breschi, Stefano, Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi
This paper proposes that the specific pattern of innovative activities in an industry can be explained as the outcome of different technological (learning) regimes. A technological regime is defined...
Learning by Firms and Incremental Technical Change.
This article proposes that learning by firms lies at the root of incremental technical change in industry. Firms may, therefore, be seen as learning organizations for the acquisition, accumulation,...
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter
In this paper we present a history-friendly model of the changing vertical scope of computer firms during the evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is "history friendly",...
Industrial and Corporate Change
David Teece, Glenn R. Carroll, Nick Von Tunzelmann, Giovanni Dosi, Franco Malerba
Papers published in Industrial and Corporate Change
This paper proposes a framework for examining factors that affect innovation in sectors: sectoral systems. Sectoral systems are based on three building blocks: knowledge and technologies, actors and...
Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation.
Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi
Using patent data for four countries (Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Italy) for the period 1968-86, the authors find that the patterns of innovative activities differ systematically across...
Giovanni Dosi, Franco Malerba, Giovanni B. Ramello, Francesco Silva
This introduction sets in context the works that follow, which are meant to take stock of the theoretical advances and also historical changes since the seminal Arrow (1962) and Nelson (1959). First,...
Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo
This paper is a first attempt at modelling the long-term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a history-friendly way. The model examines the relationships...
Is the Tendency to Variation a Chief Cause of Progress?
Cohen, Wesley M, Malerba, Franco
This paper briefly reviews the sources of the diversity of innovative activity within industries, and interprets the literature to suggest that there are three ways in which such diversity may...
Knowledge, Innovation Activities and Industrial Evolution.
Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi
We argue that the distinction between tacit and codified knowledge is indeed very important, but it constitutes only a part of the categorization of the dimensions of knowledge relevant for...
Technological Regimes and Sectoral Patterns of Innovative Activities.
Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi
This paper focuses on the relationships between observed patterns of innovative activities within a sector and the related context and underlying microeconomic processes that might account for them....
Technological paradigms: past, present and future
Nick Von Tunzelmann, Franco Malerba, Paul Nightingale, Stan Metcalfe
The special issue is introduced and contextualised. “Technological paradigms” emerged as “science push” models of innovation were being displaced by “demand pull” models that justified a...
Malerba, Franco, Nelson, Richard, Orsenigo, Luigi, Winter, Sidney
In this paper, we explore the effects of alternative policies, ranging from antitrust to public procurement, open standards, information diffusion and basic research support on the dynamics of two...
Franco Malerba, Fabio Montobbio
We define international technological specialisation (ITS) as the technological performance of a country in a specific technology relative to its overall international technological performance. This...
Innovation and the evolution of industries
Technological change, Market structure, Firm strategy, Market performance, Industry studies, O3, L1, L6,
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter
O30, L10, L60,
It is a series of working papers in economics of innovation and international economics. It has been published since 1987. Up to 1996 only the print versions are available. From 1997 on all working...
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter
In this paper we present a history-friendly model of the changing vertical scope of computer firms during the evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is “history...
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter
In this paper, we explore the effects of alternative policies, ranging from antitrust to public procurement, open standards, information diffusion and basic research support on the dynamics of two...
Innovation, international R&D Spillovers and the sectoral heterogeneity of knowledge flows.
Franco Malerba, Maria Luisa Mancusi, Fabio Montobbio
This paper analyses the relative effects of national and international, intra-sectoral and intersectoral spillovers on innovative activity in six large, industrialized countries (France, Germany,...
David Lane, Franco Malerba, Robert Maxfield, Luigi Orsenigo
In this essay, we argue that the rational choice (RC) provides an inadequate foundation for a theory of economic action. After defining RC sufficiently broadly to encompass much of the bounded...
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Franco Malerba
April 1997
RESEARCH NETWORKS AS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION IN EUROPEAN REGIONS
Lorenzo Cassi, Nicoletta Corrocher, Franco Malerba, Nicholas Vonortas
This paper concentrates on the role of research network infrastructure in fostering the dissemination of innovation-related knowledge. It examines the structure of collaborative networks and of...
The Organization of Economic Innovation in Europe
Gambardella,Alfonso, Malerba,Franco
Within the literature on industrial economics and innovation there have been surprisingly few attempts to build analytical frameworks that are based on the distinctive features and institutional...
Malerba,Franco, Brusoni,Stefano
Innovation has become a major field of study in economics, management, sociology, science and technology, and history. Case studies, empirical models, appreciative analyses and formal theories...
The Organization of Economic Innovation in Europe
Gambardella,Alfonso, Malerba,Franco
Within the literature on industrial economics and innovation there have been surprisingly few attempts to build analytical frameworks that are based on the distinctive features and institutional...
Malerba,Franco, Brusoni,Stefano
Innovation has become a major field of study in economics, management, sociology, science and technology, and history. Case studies, empirical models, appreciative analyses and formal theories...