Christopher Freeman
Christopher Freeman (11 September 1921 – 16 August 2010) was a British economist, recognised as one of the founders of the post-war school of Innovation Studies. He played a lead role in the development of the neo-Schumpeterian tradition focusing on the crucial role of innovation for economic development and of scientific and technological activities for well-being.Freeman was the founder and first Director, from 1966 to 1982, of SPRU, the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex, England, and RM Phillips Professor of Science Policy and later Professor Emeritus of at the University of Sussex. In 1986, on his formal retirement, he became visiting professor at the Aalborg University in Denmark and professorial fellow at the now Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
With various colleagues, Freeman made pioneering contributions to Innovation Studies in a number of respects. As consultant for the OECD, he was responsible for the development of 'The Frascati Manual', the first program designed to collect and standardize the statistics on R&D which resulted in the development of now commonly-used science and technology indicators at OECD. He helped to shape a tradition of research into firm-based innovation during the early 1970s and was a prominent participant in the discussion around the influential Club of Rome's Limits to Growth Report, arguing presciently that the response to environmental degradation required a reformulation of the character of economic growth rather than the elimination of economic growth. With colleagues he played a lead role in recognising the historic significance of the development of microelectronic based technologies. This matured into the development of what has come to be called the Techno-Economic Paradigm theory of long waves, building on Kondratieff long wave theory. In collaboration with Carlota Perez (whom he subsequently married), Luc Soete and Francisco Louçã he made path-breaking contributions to this field.
In the early 1990s, together with B.-Å. Lundvall, Freeman developed the concept of National System of Innovation which is widely used to understand the multiple drivers of innovation paths in different countries, regions and sectors. Throughout his career and influenced by John Desmond Bernal, his mentor at the London School of Economics where he studied after demobilisation after World War II, Freeman fused an analysis of the determinants of innovation in contemporary capitalism with an abiding interest in the social shaping and impact of economic growth. As a natural consequence of this, Freeman had a deep commitment to the understanding and promotion of an equitable path of economic growth in the developing world (as seen in the Sussex Manifesto).
As a consequence of these significant and wide-ranging contributions, Freeman interacted with and mentored a number of economists and social scientists such as Geoffrey Oldham, Keith Pavitt, Luc Soete, Carlota Perez, B.-Å. Lundvall, Francisco Louçã, Martin Bell, Daniele Archibugi, Giovanni Dosi, Julian Perry Robinson and Jan Fagerberg. His intellectual legacy has extended to almost every continent through SPRU graduates, some of whom have applied his thinking to the role of innovation in development in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Programs that have their origins in his work can be traced at leading public policy institutions such as the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, where one of his influential African students Calestous Juma played a leading role. Provided by Wikipedia
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As time goes by : from the industrial revolutions to the information revolution by Freeman, Christopher
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The figure of a hero : reading metaphor in the "New History" of the twelfth century by Freeman, Christopher Langdon
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Josephus and the figuration of a crusading hero by Freeman, Christopher Langdon
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Technology, policy, and economic performance : lessons from Japan by Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
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The research and development effort in Western Europe, North America and the Soviet Union : an experimental international comparison of research expenditures and manpower in 1962 by Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
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The economics of industrial innovation by Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
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The economics of industrial innovation by Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
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The economics of hope : essays on technical change, economic growth, and the environment by Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
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Unemployment and technical innovation : a study of long waves and economic development by Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
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Science, economic growth, and government policy by Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
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Work for all or mass unemployment? : computerised technical change into the twenty-first century by Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
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The Economics of innovation
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Design, innovation, and long cycles in economic development
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Long waves in the world economy
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Technology and the wealth of nations : the dynamics of constructed advantage
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Technical change and full employment
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World futures : the great debate
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World futures : the great debate
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New explorations in the economics of technical change
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Output measurement in science and technology : essays in honor of Yvan Fabian
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