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Classification of innovation considering technological interaction

Journal of Economics Bibliography

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Title Classification of innovation considering technological interaction
 
Creator COCCIA, Mario;

CNR -- National Research Council of Italy &Arizona State University 

 

CNR -- National Research Council of Italy

Via Real Collegio, 30-10024, Moncalieri (TO), Italy

 

Arizona State University | Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity

550 East Orange St., Tempe, AZ | 85287-4804
 
Subject Classification of innovation; Technological interaction; Technical change; Technological evolution; Evolution of technology; Complex systems.
B50; B59; O30; O33; O39.
 
Description Abstract. This study here categorizes innovations considering the taxonomic characteristics of interaction between technologies in complex systems. The proposed classification, in a broad analogy with the ecology, includes four categories of technology considering the typology of their interaction: 1) technological parasitism is a relationship between two technologies A and B in which A benefits from the interaction with B, whereas B has a negative side from interaction with A; 2) technological commensalism is a relationship between technologies where technology A benefits from B without affecting it; 3) technological mutualism is a relationship in which technologies A and B benefit from the activity of the other; finally, 4) technological symbiosis is a long-term interaction between A and B technologies that generates coevolution in complex systems. This classification can predict evolutionary pathways of technologies. This study here begins the process of clarifying typologies of interactive technologies that explain the long-run evolution of technology. The theoretical framework can be a ground work for development of more sophisticated theories to clarify technological change.Keywords. Classification of innovation, Technological interaction, Technical change, Technological evolution, Evolution of technology, Complex systems.JEL. B50, B59, O30, O33, O39.
 
Publisher Journal of Economics Bibliography
 
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Date 2018-07-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/view/1650
10.1453/jeb.v5i2.1650
 
Source Journal of Economics Bibliography; Vol 5, No 2 (2018): June; 76-93
2149-2387
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/view/1650/1658
 
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