Explaining Technology

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Roger Koppl (Syracuse University, New York) Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Università di Bologna)

Explaining Technology

Roger Koppl (Syracuse University, New York), Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Università di Bologna), Abigail Devereaux (Wichita State University, Kansas) , Brian D. Fath (Towson University, Maryland)

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Cambridge University Press
31 August 2023

Economic growth; Business innovation; Industrial applications of scientific research & technological innovation

Series: Elements in Evolutionary Economics

A long tradition explains technological change as recombination. Within this tradition, this Element develops an innovative combinatorial model of technological change and tests it with 2,000 years of global GDP data and with data from US patents filed between 1835 and 2010. The model explains 1) the pace of technological change for a least the past two millennia, 2) patent citations and 3) the increasing complexity of tools over time. It shows that combining and modifying pre-existing goods to produce new goods generates the observed historical pattern of technological change. A long period of stasis was followed by sudden super-exponential growth in the number of goods. In this model, the sudden explosion of about 250 years ago is a combinatorial explosion that was a long time in coming, but inevitable once the process began at least two thousand years ago. This Element models the Industrial Revolution as a combinatorial explosion.

By: Roger Koppl (Syracuse University New York), Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Università di Bologna), Abigail Devereaux (Wichita State University, Kansas), Brian D. Fath (Towson University, Maryland), James Herriot (Herriot Research)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9781009386258
ISBN 10: 1009386255
Series: Elements in Evolutionary Economics
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 31 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Competing explanations of technology; 3. The theory of combinatorial evolution; 4. Our model; 5. Our Tri-data result; 6. Niche theory; 7. Homo tinkerus; 8. Entrepreneurship and innovation; 9. CODA; Appendix; References.

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Explaining Technology

Roger Koppl (Syracuse University, New York), Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Università di Bologna), Abigail Devereaux (Wichita State University, Kansas) , Brian D. Fath (Towson University, Maryland)

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