New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology : essays in honour of Paul A. David / edited by Cristiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H. Hall, W. Edward Steinmueller, Edward Elgar ; contributors Ash Amin, Ashish Arora, Andrea P. Bassanini, Stefano Brusoni, Luis M.B. Cabral, John Cantwell, Patrick Cohendet, Robin Cowan, Giovanni Dosi, Dominique Foray, Andrea Fosfuri, Alfonso Gambardella, Aldo Geuna, Bronwyn H. Hall, Liliane Hilaire Perez, Jacques Mairesse, Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo, W. Edward Steinmueller, Paul Stoneman.

List of contributors, vii -- Part I. General introduction -- 1. The economics of innovation: between avabaolo and katabalo / Cristiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H. Hall and W Edward Steinmueller, 3 -- Part II. Path dependence in technical change -- 2. Competing technologies, technological monopolies and the rate of convergence to a stable market structure / Andrea P Bassanini and Giovanni Dosi, 23 -- 3. Path dependence, localised technological change and the quest for dynamic efficiency / Cristiano Antonelli, 51 -- 4. A history-friendly model of innovation, market structure and regulation in the age of random screening of the pharmaceutical industry / Franco Malerba and Luigi Orsenigo, 70 -- 5. Path dependence and diversification in corporate technological histories / John Cantwell, 118 -- 6. Is the world flat or round? Mapping changes in the taste for art / G M. Peter Swann, 158 -- 7. Waves and cycles: explorati ns in the pure theory of price for fine art / Robin Cowan, 188 -- Part III. The economics of knowledge -- 8. Learning in the knowledge-based economy: the future as viewed from the past / W. Edward Steinmueller, 207 -- 9. The economics of open technology: collective organisation and individual claims in the fabrique lyonnaise during the old regime / Dominique Foray and Liliane Hilaire Perez, 239 -- 10. Measurement and explanation of the intensity of co-publication in scientific research: an analysis at the laboratory level / Jacques Mairesse and Laure Turner, 255 -- 11. Episternic communities and communities of practice in the knowledge-based firm / Patrick Cohendet and Ash Amin, 296 -- 12. Markets for technology: panda's thumbs, calypso policies and other institutional considerations / Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri and Alfonso Gambardella, 323 -- 13. The key characteristics of sectoral knowledge bases: an international comparison / Stefano Brusoni and Aldo Geuna, 361 -- Part IV. The diffusion of new technologies -- 14. Uncovering general purpose technologies with patent data / Bronwyn H. Hall and Manuel Trajtenberg, 389 -- 15. Equilibrium, epidemic and catastrophe: diffusion of innovations with network effects / Luis M.B. Cabral, 427 -- 16. Technological diffusion under uncertainty: a real options model applied to the comparative international diffusion of robot technology / Paul Stoneman and Otto Toivanen, 438 -- Part V. Postscript -- 17. An appreciation of Paul David's work / Dominique Foray, 471 -- Index, 475.