The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics is a cutting-edge collection of specially commissioned contributions highlighting not only the broad scope but also the common ground between all branches of this prolific and fast developing field of economics.

Contents: Introduction Horst Hanusch and Andreas Pyka PART I: FROM SCHUMPETER’S UNIVERSAL SOCIAL SCIENCES TO NEO-SCHUMPETERIAN THINKING 1. Schumpeter, Joseph Alois (1883–1950) H. Hanusch and A. Pyka 2. Schumpeter’s View on Methodology: Their Source and Their Evolution M. Perlman 3. Schumpeterian Universal Social Science Y. Shionoya 4. The Pillars of Schumpeter’s Economics: Micro, Meso, Macro K. Dopfer 5. Reflections on Schumpeter’s ‘Lost’ Seventh Chapter to the Theory of Economic Development J.A. Mathews 6. ‘Schumpeterian Capitalism’ in Capitalist Development: Toward a Synthesis of Capitalist Development and the ‘Economy as a Whole’ Z.J. Acs 7. The Neo-Schumpeterian Element in the Sociological Analysis of Innovation M. Weber 8. A Schumpeterian Renaissance? C. Freeman PART II: NEO-SCHUMPETERIAN MESO DYNAMICS: THEORY 2.1. Essentials of Innovation Processes 2.1.1 Entrepreneurship, Firms and Networks 9. Neo-Schumpetarian Perspectives in Entreprenurship Research T. Grebel 10. From a Routine-based to a Knowledge-based View: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of the Firm F. Rahmeyer 11. Managing the Process of New Venture Creation: An Integrative Perspective M. Gruber 12. Technological Collaboration M. Dodgson 13. Strategic and Organizational Understanding of Inter-firm Partnerships and Networks N. Roijakkers and J. Hagedoorn 14. The Models of the Managed and Entrepreneurial Economies D. Audretsch and A.R. Thurik 2.1.2. Knowledge and Competencies 15. Tacit and Codified Knowledge D. Foray 16. Localized Technological Change C. Antonelli 17. Competencies, Capabilities and the Neo-Schumpeterian Tradition M. Augier and D.J. Teece 18. Firm Organization B.J. Loasby 19. The Role of Knowledge in the Schumpeterian Economy E. Helmstädter 20. Selection, Learning and Schumpeterian Dynamics: A Conceptual Debate U. Witt and C. Cordes 2.1.3. Innovation Processes and Patterns 21. Technological Paradigms and Trajectories G. Dosi and M. Sylos Labini 22. Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation and Technological Regimes F. Malerba 23. Innovation Networks A. Pyka 24. Technological Diffusion: Aspects of Self-Propagation as a Neo-Schumpeterian Characteristic P. Stoneman 2.2. Modelling Industry Dynamics 25. Schumpeterian Modelling W. Kwasnicki 26. Neo-Schumpeterian Simulation Models P. Windrum 27. Replicator Dynamics J.S. Metcalfe 28. ‘History-Friendly’ Models of Industry Evolution L. Orsenigo 29. Agent-based Modelling: A Methodology for Neo-Schumpetarian Economics A. Pyka and G. Fagiolo PART III: NEO-SCHUMPETERIAN MESO DYNAMICS: EMPIRICS 3.1. Measuring Industry Dynamics 30. Empirical Tools for the Analysis of Technological Heterogeneity and Change: Some Basic Building Blocks of ‘Evolumetrics’ U. Cantner and J.J. Krüger 31. Typology of Science and Technology Indicators H. Grupp 32. Sectoral Taxonomies: Identifying Competitive Regimes by Statistical Cluster Analysis M. Peneder 33. Entropy Statistics and Information Theory K. Frenken 34. A Methodology to Identify Local Industrial Clusters and its Application to Germany T. Brenner 35. Technology Spillovers and their Impact on Productivity B. Los and B. Verspagen 3.2. Case and Industry Studies 36. The Japanese System from the Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective K. Imai 37. Biotechnology Industries M. McKelvey 38. Telecommunications, the Internet and Mr Schumpeter J. Krafft 39. Innovation in Services P. Windrum 40. Flexible Labour Markets and Labour Productivity Growth: Is There a Trade-off? A. Kleinknecht and C.W.M. Naastepad PART IV: NEO-SCHUMPETERIAN MACRO DYNAMICS: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 4.1. Growth 41. Schumpeter and the Micro-foundations of Endogenous Growth F.M. Scherer 42. New Directions in Schumpeterian Growth Theory E. Dinopoulos and F. Sener 43. The Dynamics of Technology, Growth and Trade: A Schumpeterian Perspective J. Fagerberg 44. Innovation and Employment M. Vivarelli 45. Macro-Econometrics J. Foster 4.2. Development 46. The Mechanisms of Economic Evolution: Completing Schumpeter’s Theory R.H. Day 47. Innovation and Demand E.S. Andersen 48. Long Waves, the Pulsation of Modern Capitalism F. Louçã 49. Finance and Technical Change: A Long-term View C. Perez 50. Long Waves: Conceptual, Empirical and Modelling Issues G. Silverberg 51. Qualitative Change and Economic Development P.P. Saviotti 52. Understanding Economic Growth as the Central Task of Economic Analysis R.R. Nelson PART V: NEO-SCHUMPETERIAN ECONOMICS AND THE SYSTEMIC VIEW 53. Innovation Systems: A Survey of the Literature from a Schumpeterian Perspective B. Carlsson 54. National Innovation Systems: From List to Freeman B.-Å. Lundvall 55. Catching a Glimpse on National Systems of Innovation: The Input–Output Approach H. Schnabl 56. Schumpeter and Varieties of Innovation: Lessons from the Rise of Regional Innovation Systems Research P. Cooke and N. Schall 57. Fundamentals of the Concept of National Innovation Systems M. Balzat and H. Hanusch PART VI: RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 58. Policy for Innovation J.S. Metcalfe 59. Growth Policy H. Siebert 60. Time Strategies in Innovation Policy G. Erdmann, J. Nill, C. Sartorius and S. Zundel 61. Macroeconomic Policy H. Hanappi PART VII: THE IMPACT OF NEO-SCHUMPETERIAN THINKING ON DIFFERENT FIELDS 62. Schumpeter’s Influence on Game Theory J. Lesourne 63. Transaction Costs, Innovation and Learning B. Nooteboom 64. Austrian Economics and Innovation J.-L. Gaffard 65. On Austrian-Schumpeterian Economics and the Swedish Growth School G. Eliasson 66. Experimental Economics S. Berninghaus and W. Güth 67. Complexity and the Economy W.B. Arthur 68. Self-organization in Economic Systems P.M. Allen 69. Regional Economics and Economic Geography from a Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective C. Werker 70. A Roadmap to Comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian Economics H. Hanusch and A. Pyka Index