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on the Coevolution of Technology-Business Innovations |
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| Innovation, Components, and Complements |
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Abstract:
The history of innovation is characterized by "parallel invention".
I argue that this is due, in part, to innovators combining and recombining
component parts. This combinatorial innovation has several interesting
implications for business strategy.
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Biography
Hal R. Varian is the Class of 1944 Professor at the School of Information Management
and Systems, the Haas School of Business, and the Department of Economics at the
University of California, Berkeley. He received his S.B. degree from MIT in 1969
and his MA and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1973. Professor Varian has published
numerous papers in economic theory, econometrics, industrial organization, public
finance, and the economics of information technology.
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