Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22801 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe No. 278
Publisher: 
Universität Augsburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Augsburg
Abstract: 
Within the last 25 years large progress has been made in the Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, this branch of economicliterature which deals with dynamic processes causing qualitative transformation of economies basically driven by the introduction of novelties in their various and multifaceted forms. By its very nature, innovation and in particular technological innovation is the most exponent and most visible form of novelty. Therefore it is not very surprising that Neo-Schumpeterian Economics today has its most prolific fields in the studies of innovation and learning behavior on the micro-level of an economic, the studies on industry dynamics on the meso-level of the economy. From ageneral point ov view, however, the future developemental potential of socio-economic systems i.e. innovation in a very broad understanding encompassing besides technological innovation also organizational, institutional and social innovation has to be considered as the normative priciple of Neo-Schumpeterian Economics. In this sense, innovation plays a similar role in Neo-Schumpeterian Economics like prices do in Neoclassical Economics. Instead of allocation and efficiency within a certain set of constraints, Neo-Schumpeterian Economics is concerned with the conditions for and consequences of a removal and overcoming of these constraints limiting the scope of economic developement. Thus, Neo-Schumpeterian Economics is concerned with all facets of open and uncertain developements in socio-economic systems. A comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian approach therefore has to consider not only transformation processes going on e.g. on the industry level of an economy, but also on the public and monetary side of an economic system. Our contribution introduces those extensions and complements to a comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian economic theory, and develops some guideposts in the sense of a roadmap for necessary strands of analysis in the future in order to fulfill the claim of becoming a comprehensive approach comparable to neoclassical theory.
Subjects: 
Neo-Schumpeterian economics
industrial dynamics
public finance
financial markets
JEL: 
G10
O40
B52
O30
P0
L2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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