Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Techno-Economic Paradigms
- 1 Introduction: Carlota Perez and Evolutionary Economics
- 2 Developing Innovation Capability: Meeting the Policy Challenge
- 3 Slow Food, Slow Growth … Slow ICT: The Vision of Ambient Intelligence
- 4 Technical Change and Structural Inequalities: Converging Approaches to Problems of Underdevelopment
- 5 The New Techno-Economic Paradigm and its Impact on Industrial Structure
- 6 Governance in and of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts: Considerations for and from the Nanotechnology Surge
- 7 Innovation Policy and Incentives Structure: Learning from the Mexican Case
- 8 Schumpeter's Business Cycles and Techno-Economic Paradigms
- 9 Asian Innovation Experiences and Latin American Visions: Exploiting Shifts in Techno-Economic Paradigms
- 10 Doing Capitalism: Notes on the Practice of Venture Capitalism (Revised and Extended)
- 11 Small States, Innovation and Techno-Economic Paradigms
- 12 Financial Experimentation, Technological Paradigm Revolutions and Financial Crises
- 13 Why the New Economy is a Learning Economy
- 14 The Art of Macro-Qualitative Modelling: An Exploration of Perez' Sequence Model of Great Surges
- 15 Technology, Institutions and Economic Development
- 16 Techno-Economic Paradigms and the Migration (Relocation) of Industries to the Peripheries
- 17 On the Discreet Charm of the (Rentier) Bourgeoisie: The Contradictory Nature of the Installation Period of a New Techno-Economic Paradigm
- 18 Production-Based Economic Theory and the Stages of Economic Development: From Tacitus to Carlota Perez
- 19 Carlota Perez' Contribution to the Research Programme in Public Management: Understanding and Managing the Process of Creative Destruction in Public Institutions and Organizations
- 20 Carlota Perez – Her Biography and the Origins of her Ideas
- Notes
- Bibliography Carlota Perez
11 - Small States, Innovation and Techno-Economic Paradigms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Techno-Economic Paradigms
- 1 Introduction: Carlota Perez and Evolutionary Economics
- 2 Developing Innovation Capability: Meeting the Policy Challenge
- 3 Slow Food, Slow Growth … Slow ICT: The Vision of Ambient Intelligence
- 4 Technical Change and Structural Inequalities: Converging Approaches to Problems of Underdevelopment
- 5 The New Techno-Economic Paradigm and its Impact on Industrial Structure
- 6 Governance in and of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts: Considerations for and from the Nanotechnology Surge
- 7 Innovation Policy and Incentives Structure: Learning from the Mexican Case
- 8 Schumpeter's Business Cycles and Techno-Economic Paradigms
- 9 Asian Innovation Experiences and Latin American Visions: Exploiting Shifts in Techno-Economic Paradigms
- 10 Doing Capitalism: Notes on the Practice of Venture Capitalism (Revised and Extended)
- 11 Small States, Innovation and Techno-Economic Paradigms
- 12 Financial Experimentation, Technological Paradigm Revolutions and Financial Crises
- 13 Why the New Economy is a Learning Economy
- 14 The Art of Macro-Qualitative Modelling: An Exploration of Perez' Sequence Model of Great Surges
- 15 Technology, Institutions and Economic Development
- 16 Techno-Economic Paradigms and the Migration (Relocation) of Industries to the Peripheries
- 17 On the Discreet Charm of the (Rentier) Bourgeoisie: The Contradictory Nature of the Installation Period of a New Techno-Economic Paradigm
- 18 Production-Based Economic Theory and the Stages of Economic Development: From Tacitus to Carlota Perez
- 19 Carlota Perez' Contribution to the Research Programme in Public Management: Understanding and Managing the Process of Creative Destruction in Public Institutions and Organizations
- 20 Carlota Perez – Her Biography and the Origins of her Ideas
- Notes
- Bibliography Carlota Perez
Summary
Introduction
Innovation, and economic development for that matter, was born in small and, by today's standards, even in microstates like Renaissance city-states. Cities like Venice, Florence, Delft, and others were extraordinarily successful at innovation – using knowledge to create economic gains – and in out-competing nations much larger in geographic, demographic or almost any other measure of size (Hall 1999; Landes 1999, 45–59; Reinert 2007). In these cities, it can be argued that smallness was one of the key factors that contributed to an institutionally highly embedded and yet diversified economy – both then already seen as pivotal ingredients of sustained growth. Indeed, early key political economists such as Giovanni Botero (1590) and Antonio Serra (1613) juxtaposed small citystates with great economic and often military power to natural resource-rich large areas that were economically backward. Today's wisdom seems, instead, to regard smallness as a source of multiple constraints on innovation and economic development in general (e.g., Armstrong and Reid 2003; contrast with Easterly and Kraay 2000). These constraints can be summarized as follows (Walsh 1988; Freeman and Lundvall 1988; also earlier, Robinson 1963):
1) Almost by definition, small states (particularly the less-developed ones) have small home markets that limit the possibilities for economies of scale and geographical agglomerations.
2) Small home markets and dependence on exports threaten small states with overspecialization, lock-in, and low diversification of the economic structure.
3) Small states do not have the financial capabilities or human resources to invest into cutting-edge science, research and development, which makes prioritization, selectivity and adaptability key in policy design.
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- Techno-Economic ParadigmsEssays in Honour of Carlota Perez, pp. 189 - 202Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2009
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