?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4553%2F&rft.title=The+Changing+Economics+of+Technological+Learning&rft.creator=Cowan%2C+R.&rft.creator=Foray%2C+D.&rft.description=This+paper+deals+with+the+emergence+of+new+technologies+of+learning.+In+general%2C+new+tools+and+technologies+of+learning+(simulation+methods%2C+electronic+networks%2C+etc.)+ease+some+of+the+problems+in+the+economics+of+learning.+They+help+to+reduce+costs+of+information+processing+and+to+preserve+technological+diversity%2C+as+it+is+economically+feasible+to+maintain+alternative+technology+designs+much+longer.+These+effects+in+turn+have+a+positive+influence+on+the+adaptive+capacity+of+the+techno-economic+system.+First%2C+it+enables+to+explore+an+entire+spectrum+of+technological+variety+and+thus+to+broaden+the+portfolio+of+technological+alternatives.+Second%2C+it+enables+to+produce+both+effective+outputs+and+knowledge+in+the+process+of+using+a+technology.+This+means+that+knowledge+and+information+about+environmental+impacts+of+a+technology+can+be+continuously+generated+very+early+on.&rft.publisher=WP-95-039&rft.date=1995-05&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4553%2F1%2FWP-95-039.pdf&rft.identifier=++Cowan%2C+R.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fview%2Fiiasa%2F1821.html%3E+%26+Foray%2C+D.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fview%2Fiiasa%2F1258.html%3E++(1995).++The+Changing+Economics+of+Technological+Learning.+++IIASA+Working+Paper.+IIASA%2C+Laxenburg%2C+Austria%3A+WP-95-039+++++