Literature on the link between market structure and industrial innovation is surveyed.Part II focuses on the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis that large firm size, diversification or monopoly power is conducive to innovation and technical progress.Both empirical Default studies and theoretical developments are reviewed; for the former, the difficulties are catalogued and for the latter, a critique of recent trends is developed.
The effect of innovation on market structure is taken up in Part IV, while Part V portrays the merits of the new approach of Nelson Glucosamine MSM and Winter in their An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change.