Technology 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.
Technology 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.
This 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.
This book was published as a special issue of Economics of
Innovation and New Technology.
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