'Techno-Economic Paradigms' presents a series of essays by the leading academics in the field discussing one of the most interesting and talked-about socio-economic theories of our times, 'techno-economic paradigm shifts', and its role in explaining processes of innovation and development. This festschrift honours Carlota Perez, founder of the theory of 'techno-economic paradigm shifts'.

Preface; Introduction; Developing Innovation Capability ? Meeting the Policy Challenge; Slow Food, Slow Growth... Slow ICT; Technical Change and Structural Inequalities; The New Techno-Economic Paradigm and its Impact on Industrial Structure; Governance in and of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts; Innovation Policy and Incentives Structure: Learning from the Mexican Case; Asian Innovation Experiences and Latin American Visions; Doing Capitalism; Small States, Innovation and Techno-Economic Paradigms; Financial Experimentation, Technological Paradigm Revolutions and Financial Crises; Why the New Economy is a Learning Economy; The Art of Macro-Qualitative Modeling; Technology, Institutions, and Economic Development; Techno-Economic Paradigms and the Migration (Relocation) of Industries to the Peripheries; On the Discrete Charm of the United States Bourgeoisie in the Installation Period of the New Techno-Economic Paradigm; Production-Based Economic Theory and the Stages of Economic Development; Carlota Perez's Contribution to the Research Program in Public Management; Carlota Perez ? Her Biography and the Origins of her Ideas; Bibliography