paradigms

Excerpted from: The Economics of Industrial Innovation, 3rd Edition, by Chris Freeman and Luc Soete (MIT Press, 1997), table 3.5, pp. 65-67.

particular narratives or strands of research contributing to the understanding of what makes a paradigm

The following is an annotated and hyperlinked bibliography, including brief statements on the general problematic and an introduction to each author. Full texts are provided whenever possible. The bibliography is intended as a shared resource, to be enlarged and improved by others as research continues.

New comment: As I have noted somewhere in these discussions, I propose that as a a starting point economic 'cycles' should have a strong role in periodisation, because without those, we are moving outside the Kondratieff framework. Periods would then be simply named after perceived leading technologies, they would represent 'paradigms' but what drives the transition from one to the other would be difficult to argue.