The Economics of Persistent Innovation: An Evolutionary View
William Latham Christian Le Bas Persistence of firm innovative behavior became an important topic in applied industrial organization with the publication of the seminal empirical work of P. Geroski and his colleagues (1997). Evidence that firms innovate p
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Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation VOLUME 31
Series Editors
Cristiano Antonelli, University of Torino, Italy Bo Carlsson, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.
Editorial Board:
Steven Klepper, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut, U.S.A. J.S. Metcalfe, University of Manchester, U.K. David Mowery, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. Pascal Petit, CEPREMAP, France Luc Soete, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation
THE ECONOMICS OF PERSISTENT INNOVATION: AN E V O L U T I O N A R Y VIEW
edited by William R. Latham
University of Delaware and Christian Le Bas
Institut des Sciences de l'Homme
Springer
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005933467 ISBN-10:0-387-28872-4 e-ISBN 0-387-29245-4 ISBN-13:978-0387-28872-7 Printed on acid-free paper. 9 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary fights. Printed in the United States of America. 987654321 springeronline.com
CONTENTS List of Figures ......................................................................................................................... vii List of Tables ............................................................................................................................ ix List of Contributors ............................................................................................................... xiii PREFACE AND A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S By Christian Le Bas ............................................................................................................. xv INTRODUCTION By William Latham and Christian Le Bas ......................................................................... xix CHAPTER 1. PERSISTENCE IN INNOVATION: DEFINITIONS AND CURRENT D E V E L O P M E N T OF THE FIELD By Christian Le Bas and William Latham .............................................................................. 1 CHAPTER 2. DETERMINANTS OF PERSISTENCE IN INNOVATION: A STUDY OF FRENCH PATENTING. By Alexandre Cabagnols, Claudine Gay and Christian Le Bas ......................................... 19 CHAPTER 3. FACTORS OF ENTRY AND PERSISTENCE IN INNOVATION: A COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACH By Alexandre Cabagnols ..........................
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