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Josef Taalbi

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Creative response in economic history

Author

  • Josef Taalbi

Editor

  • Cristiano Antonelli

Summary, in English

Understanding how innovation comes about is essential to furthering economic development and sustainable transitions. Noting “creative response” (Schumpeter, 1947) as a broad notion of how agents respond to changes in their environment, this lemma surveys main contributions to our understanding of innovation as endogenous to social and economic mechanisms. Through a review of economic historical debates, this entry discusses the problem of to what extent significant innovations emerge “ab nihilo”, or reflect the problems and opportunities of the day.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History
  • Sustainability transformations over time and space

Publishing year

2022-10

Language

English

Pages

71-80

Publication/Series

Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Topic

  • Economic History

Status

Published

Project

  • SWINNO 3.0 Significant Swedish technological Innovations from 1970 until now

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-183910698-9
  • ISBN: 978-183910699-6