eprintid: 4553 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/45/53 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:06:15 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:20 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:06:15 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Cowan, R. creators_name: Foray, D. creators_id: AL0579 creators_id: 1498 title: The Changing Economics of Technological Learning ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_env internal_subjects: iis_mnt divisions: prog_ecs abstract: This paper deals with the emergence of new technologies of learning. In general, new tools and technologies of learning (simulation methods, electronic networks, etc.) ease some of the problems in the economics of learning. They help to reduce costs of information processing and to preserve technological diversity, 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, it enables to explore an entire spectrum of technological variety and thus to broaden the portfolio of technological alternatives. Second, 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. date: 1995-05 date_type: published publisher: WP-95-039 iiasapubid: WP-95-039 price: 10 creators_browse_id: 1821 creators_browse_id: 1258 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria pages: 21 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Cowan, R. & Foray, D. (1995). The Changing Economics of Technological Learning. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-039 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4553/1/WP-95-039.pdf