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Papers by Luigi Orsenigo

International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society 10th ISS Conference

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2003

Schumpeter addressed the role of entrepreneurship and new companies in innovation, R&D in lar... more Schumpeter addressed the role of entrepreneurship and new companies in innovation, R&D in large corporations, and the structural transformation of the economy as a result of the emergence of new sectors and technologies and the decline of others. All these are issues for the Schumpeter2004 Milan Conference. In tackling them the Organizing Committee invites contributions from within the Schumpeterian and evolutionary traditions as well as from different perspectives, theories and approaches. One of the main goals of ...

Research Policy, 2010

This paper has been prompted by an increasing sense of dissatisfaction with the current fashion o... more This paper has been prompted by an increasing sense of dissatisfaction with the current fashion of criticising the so-called "Linear Model" of innovation. LM) The frequency and hostility of remarks against the linear model raises the suspicion that something is wrong indeed. Why so much hostility to a concept that is unanimously recognised to be false and discredited? Is it only a (repetitive and abused) rhetorical device? Or does the LM still maintain a credibility in scientific research and policy-making that makes it useful or even necessary to constantly remind its deep shortcomings? If this is the case, why is it that despite all the evidence, the LM continues to be so influential in the policy debate? The sense of uneasiness and dissatisfaction is compounded by the recognition that it is quite hard to find in the critical literature a precise definition of the so called linear model. To a considerable extent, the LM is just a straw man around which a set of arguments is constructed concerning the process of technological innovation and the implied policy prescriptions. In this paper, we seek to probe the deep reasons of our dissatisfaction with undisciplined critiques to the "infamous" linear model and to clarify what are the main and most relevant problems that indeed the LM suffers from. Moreover, we ask whether at least some features of the linear model retain some interpretative and normative validity and if a complete and outright rejection of the LM would amount to throw the baby away with the dirty water.

History-Friendly models: An overview of the case of the Computer Industry

The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2001

This paper presents and discusses the methodological rationale, the basic structure and some firs... more This paper presents and discusses the methodological rationale, the basic structure and some first results of a new approach to the analysis of processes of industry evolution: "history-friendly" models, concerning the history of the computer industry. The specific purpose of this paper is to evaluate in more general terms the potential and limits of this approach, rather than the formal

... First, our model specification allows for an intercept, α i . Other studies (eg Bottazzi et a... more ... First, our model specification allows for an intercept, α i . Other studies (eg Bottazzi et al., 2001) sometimes estimate a specification equivalent to g it = ρg it−1 + u it , which, besides considering a common slope, avoids the inclusion of the specific effect α i , as if the expected ...

This paper proposes that the speci®c pattern of innovative activities in an industry can be expla... more This paper proposes that the speci®c pattern of innovative activities in an industry can be explained as the outcome of different technological (learning) regimes. A technological regime is de®ned by the particular combination of technological opportunities, appropriability of innovations, cumulativeness of technical advances and properties of the knowledge base. Building upon the distinction between Schumpeter Mark I and Schumpeter Mark II industries, this paper provides empirical estimates of the relationships between indicators of the Schumpeterian patterns of innovation (concentration of innovative activities, stability in the hierarchy of innovators and importance of new innovators) and indicators of the variables de®ning technological regimes.

ПОРІВНЯЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИХ ПІДХОДІВ ДО ПРАКТИЧНОГО ЗАПРОВАДЖЕННЯ ВИЗНАЧАЛЬНИХ ПОСТУЛАТІВ КОНЦЕПЦІЇ СЕКТОРАЛЬНОЇ ІННОВАЦІЙНОЇ СИСТЕМИ В ЕКОНОМІЧНИХ КООРДИНАТАХ КРАЇН, ЩО РОЗВИВАЮТЬСЯ

The evolution of strategy and structure of a state-owned company: the case of Agip Petroli (1960-1990)

Scientific gatekeepers and industrial development in biotechnology

Tra continuita'e cambiamento. La storia dell'Agip Petroli

This paper examines the persistence of innovative activities at the firm level in a comparative p... more This paper examines the persistence of innovative activities at the firm level in a comparative perspective. A new data set is used composed of six panel data, one for each of the following countries: France, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan and the USA. For each country, we ...

The determinants of research productivity in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology: implications for public policies

Mente e società: soluzione di problemi e organizzazione

Industrial Biotechnology in Europe

Reflections and Ways Forward

Testing Gibrat’s Law: A Bayesian Approach to the Study of Firms’ Growth

Spinoffs in different contexts: Theory and empirical evidence

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013

IPRs, Public Health and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Issues in the Post-2005 TRIPS Agenda

Innovation and Market Structure in Pharmaceuticals: An Econometric Analysis on Simulated Data