Entrepreneurship, Agglomeration and Technological Change

Technological Innovation , Entrepreneurship and Development

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in manufactures, this has been a...

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

Relevance of technological innovation and entrepreneurship to biotechnology in Iran

One of the latest and most controversial areas of science is biotechnology. Genetic engineering concerns with the manipulation of DNA molecules to modify plants, animals and other creatures. Scientists are now able to isolate a gene or genome in an animal or plant to another one, based on the traits they want to transfer. The movement of a gene from a living creature to another one is called th...

Urban Sustainability, Agglomeration Forces and the Technological Deus ex Machina

This paper aims to analyze and depict urban equilibrium from the perspective of a complex force field between (positive) agglomeration economies and (negative) environmental externalities. Based on a simplified representation of a linear urban economy, an archetypical model based on general equilibrium principles is designed and its properties are investigated by using numerical simulations. Th...

Uncertainty and Technological Change

I would like to begin with two generally accepted propositions: First, technological change is a major ingredient of long-term economic growth, and second, technological change is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Understanding the nature of these uncertainties and the obstacles to surmounting them is not a trivial matter. Rather, it goes to the heart of how new technologies are de...