Josef Taalbi
Senior lecturer
Origins and pathways of innovation in the third industrial revolution.
Author
Summary, in English
This study examines the factors that shaped the long-term evolution of the ICT industry in Sweden, 1950-2013. Using a new historical microdatabase on actual innovation output, the driving forces and technological interdependencies in the third industrial revolution are chronicled. The results of this study support some stylized facts about technological interdependencies in general-purpose technologies: a closely knitted set of industries have provided positive and negative driving forces for the development of ICT innovations. The historical evolution of GPTs can in this perspective be described as a sequence of development blocks.
Department/s
- Department of Economic History
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Pages
1125-1148
Publication/Series
Industrial and Corporate Change
Volume
28
Issue
5
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
- Economic History
Keywords
- ICT
- General-Purpose Technologies
- Innovation Biographies
- Network Analysis
- Development Blocks
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0960-6491