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In the introduction to this book we quoted two basic questions raised by Kuznets (1940) in his review of Schumpeter’s Business Cycles (1939):

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    Is there any evidence of Kondratieff long waves in important indicators of general economic activity?

  2. 2.

    Is there any evidence of a bunching of Schumpeter’s heroic innovations (and if yes: what is the theoretical explanation)?

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© 1987 Alfred Kleinknecht

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Kleinknecht, A. (1987). Summary and Conclusions. In: Innovation Patterns in Crisis and Prosperity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11175-6_10

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