?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%2F4984%2F&rft.title=Technological+Regimes%2C+Industrial+Demography+and+the+Evolution+of+Industrial+Structures&rft.creator=Audretsch%2C+D.B.&rft.description=The+purpose+of+this+paper+is+to+weave+together+the+new+theories+and+empirical+evidence+analyzing+firms+and+industries+in+motion%2C+or+what+has+been+termed+as+industry+demographics.+In+particular%2C+the+links+between+the+technological+regime+underlying+an+industry+and+the+observed+patterns+of+industry+demography+are+emphasized.+Although+a+major+conclusion+of+this+new+literature+is+that+the+structure+of+industries+is+perhaps+better+characterized+by+a+high+degree+of+fluidity+and+turbulence+than+stability%2C+the+patterns+of+industry+demographics+vary+considerably+from+industry+to+industry.+And+what+apparently+shapes+the+evolution+of+firms+particular+to+a+specific+industry+is%2C+as+much+as+anything+else%2C+the+knowledge+conditions+shaping+the+technological+regime+underlying+that+industry.&rft.publisher=WP-96-042&rft.date=1996-04&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4984%2F1%2FWP-96-042.pdf&rft.identifier=++Audretsch%2C+D.B.++(1996).++Technological+Regimes%2C+Industrial+Demography+and+the+Evolution+of+Industrial+Structures.+++IIASA+Working+Paper.+IIASA%2C+Laxenburg%2C+Austria%3A+WP-96-042+++++