Luigi Orsenigo

Technological Revolutions and the Evolution of Industrial Structures: Assessing the Impact of New Technologies upon the Size and Boundaries of Firms (2008)

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...

Technological Revolutions and the Evolution of Industrial Structures: Assessing the Impact of New Technologies upon the Size and Boundaries of Firms (2008)

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...

Technological Revolutions and the Evolution of Industrial Structures: Assessing the Impact of New Technologies upon the Size and Boundaries of Firms (2008)

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...

Technological Revolutions and the Evolution of Industrial Structures: Assessing the Impact of New Technologies upon the Size and Boundaries of Firms (2008)

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...

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in a changing landscape of vaccine development: A public/private partnership as knowledge broker and integrator (2007)

Chataway, Joanna, Brusoni, Stefano, Cacciatori, Eugenia, Hanlin, Rebecca, Orsenigo, Luigi

Vaccine production is now at the heart of the debate on development. This paper argues that, as well economic policies to address market failure, development policies aimed at fostering vaccine...

Vertical Integration and Dis-integration of Computer Firms : A History Friendly Model of the Co-evolution of the Computer and Semiconductor Industries (2006)

Malerba, Franco, Nelson, Richard, Orsenigo, Luigi, Winter, Sidney

In this paper we present a history-friendly model of the changing vertical scope of computer firms during the evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is "history friendly",...

The Intensity of Competition after Patent Expiry in Pharmaceuticals (2005)

Luigi Orsenigo

Les relations entre les évolutions des prix, l’expiration des brevets et la concurrence varient considérablement, selon les pays. Une distinction nette apparaît. Dans les pays (États-Unis en...

The Intensity of Competition after Patent Expiry in Pharmaceuticals (2004)

Pammolli, Fabio; University Of Florence, Italy. Corresponding Author: DSA, Faculty Of Economics, Via Montebello, 7, Florence, 50123, Italy , Magazzini, Laura, Orsenigo, Luigi

Les relations entre les évolutions des prix, l’expiration des brevets et la concurrence varient considérablement, selon les pays. Une distinction nette apparaît. Dans les pays (États-Unis en...

Los "modelos amistosos con la historia" en el análisis de la evolución de las industrias: Objetivos y aplicaciones (2004)

Orsenigo, Luigi

Este trabajo estudia la metodología y los objetivos teóricos de los modelos evolutivos denominados History-friendly (amistosos con la historia), que constituyen una nueva aproximación a los...

Los "modelos amistosos con la historia" en el análisis de la evolución de las industrias: Objetivos y aplicaciones (2004)

Orsenigo, Luigi

Este trabajo estudia la metodología y los objetivos teóricos de los modelos evolutivos denominados History-friendly (amistosos con la historia), que constituyen una nueva aproximación a los...

Variables influencing industrial funding of academic research in Italy. An empirical analysis (2003)

Bruno, Giovanni S. F., Orsenigo, Luigi

This paper aims at an empirical analysis of industry-academia links by using Italian data on performance of university departments and institutes to attract funding from industrial sources. The...

Innovation and market structure in the dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology: towards a history-friendly model (2002)

Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi

This paper is a first attempt at modelling the long-term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a history-friendly way. The model examines the relationships...

From gibrat's legacy to gibrat's fallacy. a bayesian approach to study the growth of firms (2002)

Cefis, Elena, Ciccarelli, Matteo, Orsenigo, Luigi

We aim at testing Gibrat's Law, a building block of the corporate growth dynamics. Using a Bayesian statistical framework that nests previous approaches, we provide evidence against Gibrat's law on...

History-Friendly Models: an Overview of the Case of the Computer Industry (2001)

Malerba, Franco, Nelson, Richard, Orsenigo, Luigi, Winter, Sidney G.

This paper presents and discusses the methodological rationale, the basic structure and some first results of a new approach to the analysis of processes of industry evolution: "history-friendly"...

Demand, innovation and the dynamics of market structure: the role of experimental users and diverse preferences

Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo

The history of a number of industries is marked by a succession of eras, associated with different dominant technologies. Within any era, industry concentration tends to grow. Particular eras are...

History-Friendly Models: an Overview of the Case of the Computer Industry

Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney G. Winter

This paper presents and discusses the methodological rationale, the basic structure and some first results of a new approach to the analysis of processes of industry evolution: "history-friendly"...

Technology and the Economy

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...

Towards a History Friendly Model of Innovation, Market Structure and Regulation in the Dynamics of the Pharmaceutical Industry: the Age of Random Screening

Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo

In this paper we present a model of the long term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a history friendly way. Our results show a strong increase in...

The Evolution of Knowledge and the Dynamics of an Industry Network

Luigi Orsenigo, Fabio Pammolli, Massimo Riccaboni, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Giuseppe Turchetti

The paper moves a step forward in the direction of establishing a connection between the structure and evolution of knowledge bases and the structure and evolution of organizational forms in...

FROM GIBRAT'S LEGACY TO GIBRAT'S FALLACY. A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO STUDY THE GROWTH OF FIRMS

Elena Cefis, Luigi Orsenigo, Matteo Ciccarelli

We aim at testing Gibrat's Law, a building block of the corporate growth dynamics. Using a Bayesian statistical framework that nests previous approaches, we provide evidence against Gibrat's law on...

Technological revolutions and the evolution of industrial structures. Assessing the impact of new technologies upon size, pattern of growth and boundaries of the firms

Giovanni Dosi, Alfonso Gambardella, Marco Grazzi, Luigi Orsenigo

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...

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in a Changing Landscape of Vaccine Development: A Public/Private Partnership as Knowledge Broker and Integrator

Joanna Chataway, Stefano Brusoni, Eugenia Cacciatori, Rebecca Hanlin, Luigi Orsenigo

Vaccine production is now at the heart of the debate on development. This paper argues that, as well as economic policies to address market failures, development policies aimed at fostering vaccine...

Regional Learning Networks in Medium-Tech Technologies and European Integration

Riccardo Cappellin, Luigi Orsenigo

The paper aims at investigating the transfer of tacit knowledge both at the regional and at the interregional level and it focuses on the factors and forms of the processes of interactive learning...

Technological Regimes and Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation.

Breschi, Stefano, Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi

This paper proposes that the specific pattern of innovative activities in an industry can be explained as the outcome of different technological (learning) regimes. A technological regime is defined...

Innovation, Diversity and Diffusion: A Self-organisation Model.

Silverberg, Gerald, Dosi, Giovanni, Orsenigo, Luigi

A number of features of innovation diffusion are identified: appropriability, diversity, expectations, selection, learning, and spillover externalities. A dynamic model is formul ated to embed the...

The (Failed) Development of a Biotechnology Cluster: The Case of Lombardy.

Orsenigo, Luigi

This paper discusses the development of the biotechnology industry in an Italian region, Lombardy. It asks why significant innovative activities in biotechnology did not emerge in what might have...

From Gibrat’s legacy to Gibrat’s fallacy. A Bayesian approach to study the growth of firms

Elena Cefis, Matteo Ciccarelli, Luigi Orsenigo

In this paper we investigate some properties of the patterns of firms’ growth. Several recent studies about this topic are based on some version of the so-called Gibrat’s Law, which assumes that...

Vertical Integration and Dis-integration of Computer Firms: A History Friendly Model of the Co-evolution of the Computer and Semiconductor Industries

Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter

In this paper we present a history-friendly model of the changing vertical scope of computer firms during the evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is "history friendly",...

Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation.

Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi

Using patent data for four countries (Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Italy) for the period 1968-86, the authors find that the patterns of innovative activities differ systematically across...

Innovation and market structure in the dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology: towards a history-friendly model

Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo

This paper is a first attempt at modelling the long-term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in a history-friendly way. The model examines the relationships...

Knowledge, Innovation Activities and Industrial Evolution.

Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi

We argue that the distinction between tacit and codified knowledge is indeed very important, but it constitutes only a part of the categorization of the dimensions of knowledge relevant for...

Technological Regimes and Sectoral Patterns of Innovative Activities.

Malerba, Franco, Orsenigo, Luigi

This paper focuses on the relationships between observed patterns of innovative activities within a sector and the related context and underlying microeconomic processes that might account for them....

The Italian connection: the origins of Giovanni Dosi's thinking and a note on some lost, or never written, manuscripts

Luigi Marengo, Luigi Orsenigo

This article provides an overview of the Italian side of Giovanni Dosi in terms of his career and works. It brings up two unpublished papers by Dosi showing in part his wider interests in...

In Defence of the Linear Model: An Essay.

Margherita Balconi, Stefano Brusoni, Luigi Orsenigo

This paper has been prompted by an increasing sense of dissatisfaction with the current fashion of criticising the so-called “Linear Model” of innovation. LM). The frequency and hostility of...

Public policies and changing boundaries of firms in a "history-friendly" model of the co-evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries

Malerba, Franco, Nelson, Richard, Orsenigo, Luigi, Winter, Sidney

In this paper, we explore the effects of alternative policies, ranging from antitrust to public procurement, open standards, information diffusion and basic research support on the dynamics of two...

Testing Gibrat's Legacy: A Bayesian Approach to Study the Growth of Firms

Elena Cefis, Matteo Ciccarelli, Luigi Orsenigo

Gibrat's law is a referent model of corporate growth dynamics. This paper employs Bayesian panel data methods to test for Gibrat's law and its implications. Using a Pharmaceutical Industry Database...

Innovate or Die? A critical review of the literature on innovation and performance

Stefano Brusoni, Elena Cefis, Luigi Orsenigo

The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of truism in recent years. However, empirical evidence showing that innovating organizations and countries outperform...

Vertical Integration and Dis-integration of Computer Firms: A History Friendly Model of the Co-evolution of the Computer and Semiconductor Industries.

Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter

In this paper we present a history-friendly model of the changing vertical scope of computer firms during the evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is “history...

Public Policies and Changing Boundaries of Firms in a "History Friendly" Model of the Co-evolution of the Computer and Semiconductor Industries.

Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter

In this paper, we explore the effects of alternative policies, ranging from antitrust to public procurement, open standards, information diffusion and basic research support on the dynamics of two...

IPRs, technological and industrial development and growth: the case of the pharmaceutical industry.

Francesco Laforgia, Fabio Montobbio, Luigi Orsenigo

In this paper we provide an introduction to some of the most salient aspects of the debate regarding the relationships between stronger intellectual property rights (IPRs) regimes and innovation in...

Choice and Action

David Lane, Franco Malerba, Robert Maxfield, Luigi Orsenigo

In this essay, we argue that the rational choice (RC) provides an inadequate foundation for a theory of economic action. After defining RC sufficiently broadly to encompass much of the bounded...