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Quantum Innovation Economics
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Series: Quantum Economics, Book 11
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ISBN13: 9798905891335
Publisher: Primal Economics Press
Published: Sep 12 2026
Pages: 460
Weight: 2.33
Height: 0.93 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Publisher: Primal Economics Press
Published: Sep 12 2026
Pages: 460
Weight: 2.33
Height: 0.93 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Innovation is the central puzzle of economics and the ultimate source of long-run growth, yet it remains the phenomenon the discipline explains least well. Adam Smith saw technical progress born of the division of labour; Marx glimpsed a capitalism that revolutionises its own instruments; and Joseph Schumpeter, in 1912 and again in 1942, placed the entrepreneur and creative destruction at the very engine of development. After the Second World War the lineage continued through Solow's residual, Romer's endogenous growth, Nelson and Winter's evolutionary theory, and the national and regional innovation-systems tradition. Each was a genuine advance, and together they established innovation as indispensable rather than incidental to economic life.
For all their power, these traditions share a mechanistic inheritance. They model innovation as a linear pipeline running from basic research to the market, as an activity carried out by a fully rational optimiser, and as a perturbation around an equilibrium to which the system promptly returns. That inheritance quietly rules out the phenomena every practitioner of innovation actually meets: an entrepreneur who holds several ventures simultaneously in mind before committing to one; a team whose members jointly know more than they know separately; a funding decision that constitutes rather than merely reveals the future it selects; a technology that coexists with its rival for years and then displaces it in a sudden tipping cascade; and a radical idea that tunnels through an entrenched regime that classical barriers should have made impassable. Linear, equilibrium and deterministic thinking cannot represent coexistence, non-local dependence, constructive measurement, critical transitions or radical uncertainty without contradiction.
This book builds Quantum Innovation Economics as the framework in which these phenomena become the normal case rather than the anomaly. Its ontology is practical and relational: innovation is not a thing possessed by an isolated agent but a process constituted in relations among agents, artefacts, institutions and expectations. Its formal language is the parsimonious mathematics of state vectors, superposition, entanglement, unitary evolution, measurement collapse, decoherence and phase transition. The mathematics is kept deliberately simple and powerful; every construction is given an explicit economic meaning for each variable and parameter, a precise classical limit that recovers the received model, and a testable claim that distinguishes it from that model. The quantum vocabulary is therefore never decorative: superposition, entanglement, collapse, decoherence, tunnelling and non-commutativity denote real mechanisms of innovation, not analogies.
The architecture moves through six parts. Part I supplies the paradigm critique, philosophical foundations, a reconstructed innovator and the formal framework. Part II reconstructs the agents of innovation, the entrepreneur, the firm, the team, the individual creator and their entangled network. Part III reconstructs the innovation process from idea generation through decision, diffusion, commercialisation and iterative feedback. Part IV scales the argument to innovation systems, national, regional, sectoral, ecological and global. Part V turns to innovation policy and governance, intellectual property, innovation finance and venture capital, talent and education, and the ethics of innovation. Part VI applies the framework to digital, green and social innovation, to disruptive transformation, and to the agenda ahead.
This book builds Quantum Innovation Economics as the framework in which these phenomena become the normal case rather than the anomaly. Its ontology is practical and relational: innovation is not a thing possessed by an isolated agent but a process constituted in relations among agents, artefacts, institutions and expectations. Its formal language is the parsimonious mathematics of state vectors, superposition, entanglement, unitary evolution, measurement collapse, decoherence and phase transition. The mathematics is kept deliberately simple and powerful; every construction is given an explicit economic meaning for each variable and parameter, a precise classical limit that recovers the received model, and a testable claim that distinguishes it from that model. The quantum vocabulary is therefore never decorative: superposition, entanglement, collapse, decoherence, tunnelling and non-commutativity denote real mechanisms of innovation, not analogies.
The architecture moves through six parts. Part I supplies the paradigm critique, philosophical foundations, a reconstructed innovator and the formal framework. Part II reconstructs the agents of innovation, the entrepreneur, the firm, the team, the individual creator and their entangled network. Part III reconstructs the innovation process from idea generation through decision, diffusion, commercialisation and iterative feedback. Part IV scales the argument to innovation systems, national, regional, sectoral, ecological and global. Part V turns to innovation policy and governance, intellectual property, innovation finance and venture capital, talent and education, and the ethics of innovation. Part VI applies the framework to digital, green and social innovation, to disruptive transformation, and to the agenda ahead.
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