{"product_id":"technology-infrastructure-cristiano-antonelli-9780415850940","title":"Technology Infrastructure","description":"\u003cp\u003eTechnology infrastructure supports the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components that form the knowledge-based economy. As such, it plays a central role in the innovation process and in the promotion of the diffusion of technologies. Thus, it is an important element contributing to the operation of innovation systems and innovation performance in any modern economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnology infrastructure, either in the narrow or broad sense, is not well understood as an element of a sector's technology platform or of a national innovation system. Similarly misunderstood are the processes by which such infrastructure is embodied in standards or diffused through various institutional frameworks. In fact, because of the public and quasi-public good nature of technology infrastructure, firms as well as public-sector agencies under invest in it, thus inhibiting long-term technological advancement and economic growth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume of essays brings together a collection of papers from eminent scholars on all of the various dimensions of technology infrastructure mentioned above. To our knowledge, it is the first such collection of papers and we expect this scholarship to become the foundation for future research in this area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was published as a special issue of \u003cem\u003eEconomics of Innovation and New Technology\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristiano Antonelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415850940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415850940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Cristiano Antonelli","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447747981567,"sku":"9780415850940","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a97963bd-7047-418b-8235-66679d51cf10.jpg?v=1777234540","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/technology-infrastructure-cristiano-antonelli-9780415850940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}