Center |
Faculty of Economics |
Departament |
Applied Economics |
Lecturers in charge |
Sin datos cargados |
Met. Docent |
Theory class attendance and acive participation in group work. Class participation and the completion of a case study will also be taken into account. Coordinators: J.A.Tomás Carpi and J.R.Gallego Bono |
Met. Avaluació |
Final examination and project work |
Bibliografia |
ARASA, C. y J.M. ANDREU: Desarrollo económico. Teoría y político, Madrid, Dykinson, 1999, cap.2 BANCO MUNDIAL: Instituciones para los mercados, Madrid, Mundi-Prensa, 2002, cap.1 FREEMAN, C. Y L.SOETE: Cambio tecnológico y empleo. Una estrategia de empleo para el siglo XXI, Madrid, Fundación Universidad-Empresa, 1996. BENAVIDES, C.A.: Tecnología, innovación y empresa, Madrid, Pirámide, 1998, cap.1 |
Continguts |
The subject Economic Development and Technological Change has a double objective. On one hand it studies the basic characteristics, variables and relationships that define processes of economic change in the modern world. On the other, it promotes in depth knowledge of one of the main dimensions of this process in economically evolved societies: technological change. PROGRAM: 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 2. ACCUMULATION THEORY ELEMENTS 3. STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 4. INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC PROCESS 5. TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION 6. COMPANIES, INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION 7. INNOVATION AND NETWORKS. 8. NATIONAL SYSTEM OF INNOVATION (S.I.N.) AND GLOBALIZATION |