KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS, TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES AND ENERGING INNOVATION SYSTEMS- LESSONS FROM NAOTECHNOLOGY

This paper seeks to contribute to our understandings of innovation system dynamics looking into how innovation systems form and transform rather than perform. The paper suggests a Penrosian inspired frame to the study of innovation systems by analysing path creation dynamics. By combining the analysis of attention rules and search rules we get an explanation of how positive and negative heuristics are formed and consequently how technological trajectories evolve, become embedded in and come to constitute central elements of innovation systems. Using nanotechnology as a case the paper focuses on how the innovation system is seeding trajectories. JEL- codes: L19,-,-Knowledge dynamics, technological trajectories and emerging innovation systems – lessons from nanotechnolog