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Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories

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The notions of technological paradigms and technological trajectories are central to the interpretation of innovation as an evolutionary process and to the understanding of invariances in the knowledge structure and in the ways technological knowledge accumulates and, together, what distinguishes different fields and different periods of technological advance.

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Dosi, G., Nelson, R.R. (2016). Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories. In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_733-1

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