Random walk to innovation: why productivity follows a power law

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2011.02.004zbMath1258.91150OpenAlexW2127699299MaRDI QIDQ413506

Christian Ghiglino

Publication date: 7 May 2012

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/3005/1/dp627.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

economic growthinnovationstechnological progressideaspatent citationsrandom growing networksscale-free distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C82) Economic growth models (91B62)

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