Topics Economic Growth and Productivity (48 papers) Economic Theory and Institutions (33 papers) Economic theories and models (26 papers) Overview Impact Standout Papers Peers Geography Research Space Co-Authors Works Hit Papers An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. 1959 2026 1981 2003 1983 1983 1993 1987 1959 4.0k 8.0k 12.0k Peers Richard R. Nelson
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Economics and Econometrics 26.0k Strategy and Management 24.5k Management of Technology and Innovation 14.1k Accounting 5.4k Management Science and Operations Research 5.3k Sidney G. Winter United States
Wesley M. Cohen United States
Daniel A. Levinthal United States
Bruce Kogut United States
David J. Teece United States
Douglass C. North United States
William J. Baumöl United States
Oliver E. Williamson United States
Mark Granovetter United States
James G. March United States
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All Works Load more (20 of 263) # Work Indexed citations 1 1 2 Economics from an Evolutionary Perspective
1 3 Institutions Supporting Technical Advance in Industry
41 4 Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes
2 5 Factors Affecting the Power of Technological Paradigms
5 6 Why Do Firms Differ and How Does It Matter? A Revisitation
12 7 Preface to the Japanese Translation of An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
1 8 Factors Behind the Asian Miracle: Entrepreneurship, Education, and Finance
0 9 special issue: Bringing institutions into evolutionary growth theory
42 10 Las instituciones como factor que regula el desempeño económico
31 11 Technology, learning, and innovation : experiences of newly industrializing economies
368 12 Diffusion of Development: Post-World War II Convergence among Advanced Industrial Nations
15 13 Entre l'Est et l'Ouest
2 14 Midewiwin Medicine Bags of the Ojibwa
0 15 High-Technology Policies: A Five-Nation Comparison
51 16 Simulation of Schumpeterian Competition
59 17 Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Economic Capabilities
149 18 1 19 Recent Exercises in Growth Accounting: New Understanding or Dead End?
67 20 New Dimensions in Natural Resources: Discussion
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Load more (20 of 263) About Richard R. Nelson Richard R. Nelson is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics , Management of Technology and Innovation and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance , having authored 263 papers that have together received 53.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Economic Growth and Productivity (48 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (33 papers) and Economic theories and models (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Management of Technology and Innovation (14.1k citations), Strategy and Management (24.5k citations) and Business and International Management (2.1k citations). Richard R. Nelson has collaborated with scholars based in United States , United Kingdom and Italy . Frequent co-authors include Sidney G. Winter , Brian J. Loasby , Michael K. Berkowitz , Wesley M. Cohen , Richard C. Levin , Alvin K. Klevorick , John P. Walsh , Bhaven N. Sampat , Nathan Rosenberg and Richard V.L. Cooper . Their work appears in journals such as Nature , Science and Circulation .
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