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...
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...
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)
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...
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...
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...
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"...
BLDSC reference no.: DX95189.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sussex, 1989.
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"...
Competencies, Technological Change and Network Dynamics. The case of the bio-pharmaceutical industry
Luigi Orsenigo, Fabio Pammolli, Massimo Riccaboni
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Co-evolution of Organizational Forms and Technology
Luigi Orsenigo, Fabio Pammolli, Massimo Riccaboni
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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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Sidney Winter
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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...
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...
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...
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...