Dosi, Giovanni, Gambardella, Alfonso, Grazzi, Marco, Orsenigo, Luigi
In this work we discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources of competitive advantage...
Dosi, Giovanni, Gambardella, Alfonso, Grazzi, Marco, Orsenigo, Luigi
In this work we discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources of competitive advantage...
Dosi, Giovanni, Gambardella, Alfonso, Grazzi, Marco, Orsenigo, Luigi
In this work we discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources of competitive advantage...
Dosi, Giovanni, Gambardella, Alfonso, Grazzi, Marco, Orsenigo, Luigi
In this work we discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources of competitive advantage...
Bassanini, Andrea, Dosi, Giovanni
Empirically the diffusion of competing technologies most often displays either "lock-in" to a quasi-monopoly or apparent turbulence but rarely stable market-sharing. In contrast with widespread...
Bassanini, Andrea, Dosi, Giovanni
Empirically the diffusion of competing technologies most often displays either "lock-in" to a quasi-monopoly or apparent turbulence but rarely stable market-sharing. In contrast with widespread...
Bassanini, Andrea, Dosi, Giovanni
Empirically the diffusion of competing technologies most often displays either "lock-in" to a quasi-monopoly or apparent turbulence but rarely stable market-sharing. In contrast with widespread...
Knowledge accumulation and industry evolution: the case of Pharma-Biotech (2006)
Mazzucato, Mariana, Dosi, Giovanni
Written by internationally acclaimed experts in the economics of innovation, this volume examines how the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector is affected by the dynamics of innovation,...
[Seminario Latino-Iberoamericano de Gestión Tecnológica ALTEC] (2004)
Dosi, Giovanni (conferencia), Katz, Jorge M. (comentarios), Unger, Kurt (comentarios)
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Dosi, Giovanni (conferencia), Katz, Jorge M. (comentarios), Unger, Kurt (comentarios)
Créditos de producción incompletos o inexistentes
Invariances and Diversities in the Evolution of Manufacturing Industries (2003)
Bottazzi, Giulio, Cefis, Elena, Dosi, Giovanni, Secchi, Angelo
In this work we explore some basic properties of the size distributions of firms and of their growth processes both at aggregate and disaggregate levels. First, we investigate which properties of...
Orietta Marsili, Bart Verspagen, Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Luuk Klomp, George Van Leeuwen, ...
This paper explores the characteristics of `technological regimes' in Dutch manufacturing. Using evidence from the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS-II) a classification of technological...
Adaptive learning and emergent coordination in minoriry games (2001)
Bottazzi, Giulio, Devetag, Giovanna, Dosi, Giovanni
The work studies the properties of a coordination game in which agents repeatedly compete to be in the population minority. The game re ects some essential features of those economic situations in...
The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities (2000)
Dosi, Giovanni (ed.), Winter, Sidney G. (ed.), Nelson, Richard R. (ed.)
The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities (2000)
Dosi, Giovanni (ed.), Winter, Sidney G. (ed.), Nelson, Richard R. (ed.)
On Multivariate Structures and Exhaustive Reductions (1999)
Francesca Chiaromonte, Giovanni Dosi
Simplified representations of multivariate laws, and in particular those allowing one to decrease the dimension while preserving structural information, are of paramount importance in statistical...
Some Preliminary Experiments with the Financial "Toy-Room" (1999)
Francesca Chiaromonte, Mariele Bert E, Giovanni Dosi
We describe some preliminary experiments realized with the Financial "Toy-Room" (a microfounded simulation environment for decentralized trade in a homogeneous financial asset). The experiments are...
Interdependent Search and Industry Dynamics: on Ericson and Pakes (1995) (1998)
Yuri M. Kaniovski, Giovanni Dosi
This note argues about a central analytical inconsistency of Ericson and Pakes (1995). Notwithstanding the explicit claims of the article, the formal hypotheses employed there imply that a firm's...
Y. M. Kaniovski, Giovanni Dosi
Birth and death processes with a finite number of states are used in modeling di#erent kinds of noisy learning processes in economics. To analyze the long run properties one looks at the...
National System of Innovation: A Note on Technological . . . (1998)
The main propose of this paper is to describe a simple model for the understanding of empirical and analytical potential achievements of the NIS approach , particularly with regards at the sources...
Demand Dynamics With Socially Evolving Preferences (1998)
Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Mara Meacci, Gordon Macdonald, Roberta Aversi
this paper witnessed at a seminar the horror of most colleagues when Werner Hildebrand, presenting some further development on his theory of demand (Hildebrand (1994)) provocatively suggested more or...
Emmanuelle Conesa, Giovanni Dosi
The American NASP programme --- National Aero Space Plane --- is a good illustration of the evolutionary dilemma between variety and standardization in the management of mission-oriented R&D. This...
Some General Questions About Markets (1998)
Markets are central institutions of Western societies and their main mechanism of coordination; however, we do not know much about their functioning. How are prices formed? By which ways do buyers...
Andrea P. Bassanini, Giovanni Dosi, Gordon J. Macdonald
This paper is motivated by two 'stylized facts' concerning the dynamics of di#usion of di#erent technologies competing for the same market niche. a) A stable pattern of market sharing with no...
Localized Technological Change and Path-Dependent Growth (1998)
Andrea P. Bassanini, Giovanni Dosi, Ken Judd, Yuri Kaniovski, Mordecai Kurz, Giancarlo Marini, ...
In recent years the theory of macroeconomic growth has seen an expanding literature building upon the idea that technological change is localized (technology-specific) to investigate various...
Persistently Good Strategies for Nonleavable Stochastic Games With Finite State Space (1997)
Piercesare Secchi, William D. Sudderth, Giovanni Dosi
The notion of persistently optimal strategy in gambling theory is analogous to that of subgameperfect equilibria in game theory. We prove the existence of persistently ffl-optimal strategies for the...
Neutral to the Right Processes from a Predictive Perspective: A Review and New Developments (1997)
Pietro Muliere, Stephen Walker, Giovanni Dosi
This paper presents a Bayesian nonparametric approach to survival analysis based on arbitrarly right censored data. The first aim will be to show that the neutral to the right process is the natural...
Specialization and Technology in Mexico: A Virtual Pattern of Development and Competiveness? (1997)
Mario Capdevielle, Mario Cimoli, Gabriela Dutrenit, Giovanni Dosi
By the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, Mexico has shown important trasformations in its pattern of industrialisation and competitiveness. It is hard to determine whether this pattern...
Flexible Technology, Unemployment and Effort: The Role of the Organization . . . (1997)
Donatella Gatti, Giovanni Dosi
this paper. I am also indebted to Masahiko Aoki and Robert Boyer for their suggestions. The paper is part of the TSER Projects on Technology, Economic Integration and Social Cohesion ». Donatella...
A Reduction Paradigm for Multivariate Laws (1997)
Francesca Chiaromonte, Giovanni Dosi
A reduction paradigm is a theoretical framework which provides a definition of structure for multivariate laws, and allows to simplify their representation and statistical analysis. The main idea is...
Endogenous Local Interaction and Multi-Product Firms (1997)
Bauke Visser, Aedn Doris, Giovanni Dosi, Iouri Kaniovski
Multi-product firms are modeled as endogenously locally interacting entities that gather information on the profitability of product combinations in an environment defined in terms of their currently...
Learning in evolutionary environments (1996)
Dosi, Giovanni, Marengo, Luigi, Fagiolo, Giorgio
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Exploring the Unknown On Entrepreneurship, Coordination and Innovation Driven Growth (1970)
Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Gordon J. Macdonald
Notwithstanding the revival of attention recently displayed by the economic discipline about self-sustained processes of economic growth fueled by technological advances, an enormous gap still...
Institutions and Policies Shaping Industrial Development: An Introductory Note
Mario Cimoli, Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson, Joseph Stiglitz
In this work, meant as an introduction to the contributions of the task force on Industrial Policies and Development, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, New York, we discuss the...
In this work, inspired by Winter [2006], in fact of vintage 1968, we discuss the relation between three dierent levels of analysis of technologies, namely as (i) bodies of problem-solving knowledge,...
Giovanni Dosi, Marco Faillo, Luigi Marengo
This paper presents a critical overview of some recent attempts at building formal models of organizations as information-processing and problem-solving entities. We distinguish between two classes...
Modeling Industrial Dynamics with Innovative Entrants
Sydney Winter, Yuri Kaniovski, Giovanni Dosi
The paper analyzes some generic features of industrial dynamics whereby innovative change is carried, stochastically, by new entrants. Relying on the formal representation suggested in Winter et al....
Modeling a Decentralized Asset Market: An Introduction to the Financial "Toy-Room"
Francesca Chiaromonte, Giovanni Dosi
In this paper, we describe a micro-founded simulation enviroment for decentralized trade in financial asset. Within the philosophy of computer simulated "artificial markets", this enviroments allows...
Andrea Bassanini, Giovanni Dosi
Empirically the diffusion of competing technologies most often displays either "lock-in" to a quasi-monopoly or apparent turbulence but rarely stable market-sharing. In contrast with widespread...
Andrea Bassanini, Giovanni Dosi
This work concerns some generic properties of the international diffusion of technologies and products in markets which are interdependent but displays, to varying degrees, location specific forms of...
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The structure of problem-solving knowledge and the structure of organisations
Luigi Marengo, Giovanni Dosi, Paolo Legrenzi, Corrado Pasquali
This work presents a model of organisational problem solving able to account for the relationships between problem complexity, tasks decentralilzation and problem solving efficiency. Whenever problem...
A Speculative Centralized Asset Market with Adaptive Heterogenous Agents
Francesca Chiaromonte, Nicolas Jonard, Giovanni Dosi
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Adaptive Learning and Emergent Coordination in Minority Games
Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanna Devetag, Giovanni Dosi
The work studies the properties of a coordination game in which agents repeatedly compete to be in the population minority. The game reflects some essential features of those economic situations in...
Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Marco Lippi, Fabio Pammolli, Massimo Riccaboni
The work studies the processes of growth of the world top 150 pharmaceutical firms, on the grounds of an original database which allows also disaggregate analysis at the level of single therapeutical...
Problem-Solving Behaviours, Organisational Forms and the Complexity of Tasks
Giovanni Dosi, Mike Hobday, Luigi Marengo
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Innovation and Corporate Growth in the Evolution of the Drug Industry
Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Marco Lippi, Fabio Pammolli, Massimo Riccaboni
The work studies the processes of growth of the world top 150 pharmaceutical firms, on the grounds of an original database which allows also disaggregate analysis at the level of single therapeutical...
Modes of Knowledge Accumulation, Entry Regimes and Patterns of Industrial Evolution
Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Gaia Rocchetti
In this work we explore the interplay between entry, selection and innovative learning as determinants of industrial evolution. We propose a model aimed to capture the essential features of learning...
Corporate Growth and Industrial Structure. Some Evidence from the Italian Manufacturing Industry
Giulio Bottazzi, Elena Cefis, Giovanni Dosi
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On the Ubiquitous Nature of the Agglomeration Economies and their Diverse Determinants: Some Notes.
Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo
This highly preliminary work attempts to study the multiple drivers of agglomeration phenomena in contemporary economies. First, we propose a tentative taxonomy of agglomeration drivers in which the...
Giovanni Dosi, Daniel Levinthal, Luigi Marengo
In this paper we present a general model of organizational problem-solving in which we explore the relationship between problem complexity, decentralization of tasks and reward schemes. When facing...
The paper discusses some fundamental features of the 'Simonian' research program in microeconomics and compare them with two streams of thought which find their roots into Simon's pathbreaking work...
The Economics Of System Integration: Toward An Evolutionary Interpretation.
Giovanni Dosi, Mike Hobday, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Prencipe
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Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Orsenigo, Mauro Sylos Labini
The paper, as such a draft of a chapter for the second edition of the Handbook of Economic Socielogy, Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg), is meant to offer some sort of roadmap accross a...
Giulio Bottazzi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Giovanni Dosi
Economies of agglomeration are central in understanding the emergence of industrial clustering. However, existing models that incorporate economies of agglomeration to explain industrial...
Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Igor Rebesco
The paper compares the properties of market dynamics, under different trading protocols. At an empirical level, we present some evidence stemming from the comparison between different intra-daily...
Giorgio Fagiolo, Giovanni Dosi
The paper presents a model of endogenous growth in which firms are modeled as boundedly-rational, locally interacting, agents. Firms produce a homogeneous good employing technologies located in an...
Giovanni Dosi, Daniel Levinthal, Luigi Marengo
In this paper we present a general model of organizational problem-solving in which organizations engage into an activity of cognition (understanding the world in which they operate) and an activity...
Division of Labor, Organizational Coordination and Market Mechanism in Collective Problem-Solving
This paper builds upon a view of economic system and individual economic organization as problem-solving arrangements and presents a simple model of adaptive problem-solving driven by trial-and-error...
A Baseline Model of Industry Evolution
Sidney G. Winter, Yuri M. Kaniovski, Giovanni Dosi
The paper analyses some general dynamic properties of industries characterized by heterogeneous firms and continuing stochastic entry. After a brief critical assessment of some significant drawbacks...
Learning in Evolutionary Environments
Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Giorgio Fagiolo
The purpose of this work is to present a sort of short selective guide to an enormous and diverse literature on learning processes in economics. We argue that learning is an ubiquitous characteristic...
Invariances and Diversities in the Evolution of Manufacturing Industries
Giulio Bottazzi, Elena Cefis, Giovanni Dosi, Angelo Secchi
In this work we explore some basic properties of the size distributions of firms and of their growth processes both at aggregate and disaggregate levels. First, we investigate which properties of...
Carolina Castaldi, Mario Cimoli, Nelson Correa, Giovanni Dosi
The aim of this work is to investigate the role played by the so-called `globalization' processes of the last couples of decades on the international patterns of technological learning and on the...
Towards an Evolutionary Interpretation of Aggregate Labor Market Regularities
Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Roberto Gabriele
Three well-known aggregate regularities (i.e. Beveridge, Wage, and Okun's curves) seem to provide a quite complete picture of the interplay between labor market macro-dynamics and business cycle....
Income Levels and Income Growth. Some New Cross-Country Evidence and Some Interpretative Puzzles
Carolina Castaldi, Giovanni Dosi
This work brings together two distinct ensembles of evidence concerning, at macro level, international distributions of incomes and their dynamics, and, at micro level, the size distributions of...
Sectoral and Geographical Specificities in the Spatial Structure of Economic Activities
Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Angelo Secchi
This work explores the spatial structure of location of production activities. We try to disentangle location- from sector-specific drivers in the dynamic process of spatial agglomeration. We argue...
Animal Spirits, Lumpy Investment, and Endogenous Business Cycles
Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Andrea Roventini
In this paper, we present an evolutionary model of industry dynamics yielding en- dogenous business cycles with 'Keynesian' features. The model describes an economy composed of firms and...
Innovation public policies and competitiveness of the italian Industrie.
Camillo Bussolati, Giovanni Dosi
Technical and organizational innovation are crucial factors for the competitiveness of every country. Italy, characterized by a prevalence of small and medium-sized companies, generally appears more...
Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Corrado Pasquali
The paper attempts a critical assessment of both the theory and the empirical evidence on the role of appropriability and in particular of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) as incentives for...
This work builds upon some long-term secular regularities concerning the relation between consumption of energy, technological progress and economic growth and reassesses the old question raised...