Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy

Maureen McKelvey is Professor of the Economic of Innovation at the Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She works within the innovation, evolutionary economics, and industrial dynamics communities, with a particular interest in economic and business issues related to biotechnology and open source software. Professor McKelvey is Director of the RIDE (R&D, Innovation, and Dynamics) Centre Magnus Holmen is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He focuses on evolutionary systems of innovation, with a particular interest in softward and content creation.

1. Introduction ; THEME 1: EXPERIMENTATION AND INERTIA ; 2. The new craft skills of engineering: the impact of innovation technology on engineering practice ; 3. Innovative Opportunities: A Force Driving Flexibility and Stability in the economy ; 4. The Great Experiment: Public-private partnerships and innovation in design, production and operation of capital goods in the UK ; THEME 2: EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION OF STRUCTURE ; 5. Complexity, evolution, and the Structure of Demand ; 6. Self-transformation, Self-organization, and Evolutionary Adaptation in the Economic Process ; 7. Changing Boundaries of Firms in the Evolution of the Computer Industry: Towards a history friendly model ; THEME 3: TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION ; 8. The effects of Technological Change on the Boundaries of Existing Firms ; 9. Transitions, Transformations and Reproduction: Dynamics of functional systems ; 10. Analyzing Flexibility and Stability in Co-evolutionary Processes