Technical Change and Entrepreneurship: An Overview from Cantillon to Schumpeter
The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Economics
ISBN: 978-0-76231-241-2, eISBN: 978-1-84950-366-2
Publication date: 31 October 2005
Abstract
This chapter deals with aspects of technical change and entrepreneurship which have dominated the economics literature. Since we shall confine our attention to the economic aspects of technical change, our approach is one-sided. This is reinforced by the fact that we discuss only a part of the very large body of literature. The tension between wants and the means to satisfy these is directly influenced by technical change, both from a qualitative and a quantitative point of view. This relationship between scarcity and technical change has been studied in detail since the 1970s, although elements have always been part of economic debate (Heertje, 1977).
Citation
Heertje, A. (2005), "Technical Change and Entrepreneurship: An Overview from Cantillon to Schumpeter", Vinig, G.T. and Van Der Voort, R.C.W. (Ed.) The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Economics (Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0737-1071(05)09001-3
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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