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2016 | 15 | 43-56

Article title

The Logic of Imitative Processes: Imitation as Secondary Innovation – an Axiomatic Schumpeterian Analysis

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PL
Logika procesów imitacyjnych: imitacje jako wtórne innowacje – schumpeterowska analiza aksjomatyczna

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This paper offers an axiomatic analysis of the imitative activity of producers in a Schumpeterian process of innovative change. It argues that structural change in the economy is generated by leaders of radical innovation, whose actions trigger the diffusion of innovations, and whose strategies and innovations can be copied by imitators. As a consequence, these imitators become second-order innovators operating in a production system that is deprived of primary innovators. The paper demonstrates that increases in the number and variety of second-order innovators can intensify innovative changes throughout the production system. Furthermore, this logic can be reconstructed by reference to the research programme on modelling Schumpeterian innovative evolution within the Arrow-Debreu dynamic general equilibrium theory.
PL
W pracy zaproponowana została aksjomatyczna analiza działalności imitacyjnej producentów w schumpeterowskim procesie zmian innowacyjnych. Zgodnie z przedstawionym podejściem zmiany strukturalne w systemie ekonomicznym zostają zapoczątkowane przez działalność liderów w sferze produkcji, będących radykalnymi innowatorami, którzy inicjują proces dyfuzji innowacji, a ich strategie oraz wprowadzone innowacje mogą być powielane przez producentów będących imitatorami. W rezultacie imitatorzy ci stają się innowatorami „drugiego rzędu”, dyskredytując jednocześnie innowatorów „pierwotnych”. Zgodnie z tym głównym celem przedstawionej pracy jest wykazanie, że zwiększenie liczby imitatorów prowadzi do zintensyfikowania zmian innowacyjnych w całym systemie produkcji. Ponadto przedstawione ujęcie jest zgodne z programem badawczym dotyczącym modelowania schumpeterowskiej ewolucji innowacyjnej w aparacie pojęciowym ujętej dynamicznie teorii równowagi ogólnej Arrowa-Debreu.

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15

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43-56

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Contributors

  • Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie, Katedra Matematyki, ul. Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Kraków, Poland
  • Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie, Katedra Matematyki, Poland

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