Part I - Technical progress and innovation between history and economy
Technical progress in history
Technical progress and innovation in economic thought

Part II - Economics of innovation: definitions, models
Evolutionary innovation theory: basic notions
Models of relationship between Science-Technology-Innovation
Innovation
The innovative company
Network
Dissemination of innovation

Part III - Innovation between variety and technological persistence
Variety and technological persistence in the enterprise
Variety and technological persistence in the industry
Variety of the environment and systems of innovation

Part IV - Public policies and intellectual property rights
Public policies for innovation
Innovation and intellectual property rights

Part V - Accumulation and dispersion of technological innovation
Space concentration
Productive fragmentation
Global dispersion and local learning