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While the old economy was driven by manufacturing and tangible commodities, and was focused on the allocation of existing material resources, the new economy is knowledge-based and technology-driven. It is geared towards innovation, and to the creation of new use-values, products and services.
“To understand the world and act on it, we need workable concepts.”
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The most valuable contribution of Monica Gattinger is gratefully acknowledged.
The first two sections of this paper borrow freely from the introductory chapter of J. de la Mothe and G. Paquet (eds.), Challenges Unmet in the New Production of Knowledge (PRIME 1997), a document that was produced to present and contextualize the Third PRIME Lecture Series.
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De La Mothe, J., Paquet, G. (2000). Informational Innovations and Their Impacts. In: De La Mothe, J., Paquet, G. (eds) Information, Innovation and Impacts. Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4617-7_1
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