“we can speak of ‘cognitive lock-in’
if economic actors, because of earlier success,
continue to adhere to the existing national development
path even if it can no longer ensure global competitiveness
and economic growth.”
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Gerd Schienstock,
Embracing
the Knowledge Economy,
p. 6
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“Controversy and dialogue have been,
and will continue to be,
a major engine for the accumulation
of new knowledge and progress in macroeconomics.”
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Brian Snowdon and Howard R. Vane,
Modern Macroeconomics,
p. 55
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“increased similarity means that partners can have less
to contribute to each other… if they become identical in
what they know there is no reason for them to collaborate,
no matter how much they trust each other or how smoothly
they can interact.”
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R. Cowan, N. Jonard and J.-B. Zimmermann,
Evolving networks of inventors, in
Innovation,
Industrial Dynamics, and Structural
Transformation, Cantner & Malerba eds.,
p. 130
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“The lead market hypothesis suggests that
anticipatory innovativeness of a country is
constituted by a nation-specific market context
and not by discoveries or inventions, the decision
of firms or simply by chance.”
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Marian Beise,
Lead Markets,
p. 12
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“The market is a peculiar social construct
which needs for coming to maturity a whole set
of social conditions.”
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Lesourne, Orlean and Walliser
Evolutionary Mircroeconomics,
p. 5
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“While knowledge production and policy-making
through decades have been characterized by growing
specialization, the learning economy calls for
lateral thinking and for the integration of
separate perspectives and strategies.”
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Lundvall,
Innovation, Growth
and Social Cohesion,
p. 4
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