The production of knowledge has become central to economic life. Competitiveness in the 21st century market place is now characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. But does this render cultural and social knowledge unimportant?
Kate Morrison and Jason Potts, 'Industry policy as innovation policy’ in Greg Hearn and David Rooney (eds) Knowledge policy: Challenges for the 21st century. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
A version of this document available to download is the submission relating to items 1,2 and 3 of the Productivity Commission’s Terms of Reference for its study of public support for science and innovation in Australia.
Jason Potts (forthcoming) 'Ontology in Economics' in R Poli (ed) Theory and Applications of Ontology: A handbook. Springer Verlag.
Stuart Cunningham, Jason Potts and John Banks have written the opening chapter in the forthcoming title Cultural Economy to be published by Sage in September 2008 as part of their Cultures and Globalization series.
The Cultural Economy is edited by: Helmut K. Anheier at the University of California, Los Angeles and Yudhishthir Raj Isar from the The American University of Paris.
Foster, J. and Potts, J., (forthcoming) ‘On the use of simulation and econometrics to empirically analyze the rule-structure of an evolving economic system’. Schumpeter Society Conference Volume. (eds) J Gaffard and U Cantner, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
Articles
Potts, J. and Cunningham, S., ‘Four models of the Creative Industries’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, forthcoming vol 14, no 3 (2008).
ABSTRACT: Much thought and effort has gone into the design of new conceptual frameworks and theoretical tools for the analysis of evolving, self-transforming economic systems. Nevertheless, why not follow Marshall?
Cunningham, S. and Potts, J., ‘New economics for new media’, Mobile Media Reader (eds Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth) forthcoming Routledge 2008
The first book to chart the development of the field of evolutionary economics, this book provides an integrated generic framework to define the rules of an economic system; how they are coordinated and the causes and consequences of their change.
I want to argue that, whatever some might think, Leibenstein was not so much a mad uncle in the Harvard faculty’s attic (e.g. Stigler 1976 cf. Holden 2005), but rather a brilliant evolutionary economist struggling to escape.
Citiation:
Potts, J. (2007) ‘Fashionomics’ Policy, 23(4): 10-15.
Potts, J. (2007) ‘Art and innovation: An evolutionary view of the creative industries’ UNESCO Observatory e-journal.
Potts, J. and Mandeville, T. (2007) ‘Toward an evolutionary theory of innovation and growth in the service economy’ Prometheus 25(2): 147–160.
Potts, J. (2007) ‘What’s new in the economics of arts and culture?’ Dialogue, 26(1): 8–14.