Technological
Change and Industrial Evolution
Professors Hounshell, Klepper, and Miller.
The
growth of global competition has deepened
appreciation of the fundamental role for
technological change in shaping the market
structure of firms, industries, and regions, and
in conditioning economic performance. This
program focuses on the evolution of firm and
industry structure, and its interplay with
technological change. The determinants of the
generation, commercialization, and diffusion of
new technologies are considered, and the link
between technological change and the evolution of
firm and industry structure is explored. Public
policy concerning the funding of basic and
applied research, antitrust, regulation, and
regional economic development is considered, as
is the private management of technological
change. Courses are offered by economists,
historians, and engineers on the history of
technology and industrial development, the
economics of technological change, and industry
evolution and innovation to students with
training in microeconomics, statistical methods,
and historical analysis.
Other SDS Research:
Behavioral
Decision Research
Political
Psychology and Economy
Organizations
Computational
Modeling of Complex Adaptive Social Systems
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