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Forces of production theories; Systemic innovation, theories
For Marxists, radical economists, but also Classical economists, the historical context determines for most part the order of priority of the scientific phenomena to study, the techniques (methods and tools) to use, as well as the social use which will be made of the results. They highlighted three stages in the transformation of the production forces of capitalism: meetings of workers isolated under the same management, followed by the division of the work and the differentiation of the tasks, then by the clear separation between intellectual and manual work. In today’s global economy, a fourth stage in the productive organization appears: an organization based on the spatial de-concentration of the achievement of this production and on decisional, financial, and informational centralization that the applications of contemporary science allow. This fourth stage is the one of the unprecedented marketability of...
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Uzunidis, D. (2013). Innovation in Radical Economic Thought. In: Carayannis, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3858-8_502
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