A Tribute to Richard Nelson (1930-2025)
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This text is part of a broader effort to commemorate Richard Nelson’s legacy. Drawing on social network analysis, I present a visualisation of his core ideas and collaborations within the scientific community. The main purpose is to offer a broad overview of Richard Nelson’s intellectual legacy, rather than a detailed bibliographic analysis of his scientific output. The analysis demonstrates the wide range of topics he addressed, but always connected to his central concern: understanding how capitalist economies develop and grow. It also highlights his network of collaborators, distinguished by their exceptional intellectual acumen.
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Cantner, U. and Verspagen, B. (2025). Introduction to the papers of Richard Nelson in the journal of evolutionary economics. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, pages 1–3.
Cimoli, M., Dosi, G., Nelson, R., and Stiglitz, J. (2005). A note on the institutions and policies shaping industrial development. In IPD meeting, Rio, march, pages 17–18.
Cohen, W. M., Nelson, R., and Walsh, J. P. (2000). Protecting their intellectual assets: Appropriability conditions and why us manufacturing firms patent (or not). Technical report, National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge, Mass., USA.
Cohen, W. M., Nelson, R. R., and Walsh, J. P. (2002). Links and impacts: the influence of public research on industrial r&d. Management science, 48(1):1–23.
Dosi, G., Freeman, C., Nelson, R., Silverberg, G., Soete, L., et al. (1988). Technical change and economic theory, volume 988. Pinter London.
Dosi, G., Malerba, F., and Teece, D. (2025). Richard r. nelson 1930–2025. Industrial and Corporate Change. Published online: 14 May 2025.
Dosi, G. and Nelson, R. (2010). Technical change and industrial dynamics as evolutionary processes. In Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, volume 1, pages 51–127. Elsevier.
Larivière, V., Gingras, Y., Sugimoto, C. R., and Tsou, A. (2015). Team size matters: Collaboration and scientific impact since 1900. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(7):1323–1332.
Malerba, F., Nelson, R., Orsenigo, L., and Winter, S. (1999). “History-friendly” models of industry evolution: the computer industry. Industrial and corporate change, 8(1):3–40.
Martin, B. R. and Steinmueller, W. E. (2025). Richard r. nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar. Research Policy, 54(4):105211.
Mazzoleni, R. and Nelson, R. R. (1998). Economic theories about the benefits and costs of patents. Journal of economic issues, 32(4):1031–1052.
Mowery, D. C. and Nelson, R. R. (1999). Explaining industrial leadership. Sources of industrial leadership: Studies of seven industries, pages 359–382.
Nelson, R. (1964). Aggregate production functions and medium-range growth projections. The American Economic Review, 54(5):575–606.
Nelson, R. (1993). National innovation systems: A comparative analysis. New York.
Nelson, R. (1994). What has been the matter with neoclassical growth theory? In The economics of growth and technical change, pages 290–324. Edward Elgar Publishing. Nelson, R. (1997). How new is new growth theory? Challenge, 40(5):29–58.
Nelson, R. and Phelps, E. S. (1966). Investment in humans, technological diffusion, and economic growth. The American economic review, 56(1/2):69–75.
Nelson, R. and Romer, P. M. (1996). Science, economic growth, and public policy. Challenge, 39(1):9–21.
Nelson, R. and Winter, S. G. (1985). An evolutionary theory of economic change. Harvard University Press.
Nelson, R. R. (1977). The Moon and the Ghetto. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, first edition. Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis.
Nelson, R. R. (1995). Why should managers be thinking about technology policy? Strategic management journal, 16(8):581–588.
Nelson, R. R. (1996). National innovation systems: A retrospective on a study. In Dosi, G. and Malerba, F., editors, Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise, pages 247–276. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Nelson, R. R. (2000). Knowledge and innovation systems. Knowledge Management in the Learning society, pages 115–124.
Nelson, R. R. (2016). Economic development as an evolutionary process. In Handbook of alternative theories of economic development, pages 323–335. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Nelson, R. R. and Nelson, K. (2002). Technology, institutions, and innovation systems. Research policy, 31(2):265–272.
Nelson, R. R. and Rosenberg, N. (1993). Technical innovation and national systems. National innovation systems, pages 3–22.
Nelson, R. R. and Winter, S. G. (1974). Neoclassical vs. evolutionary theories of economic growth: critique and prospectus. The Economic Journal, 84(336):886–905.
Nelson, R. R. and Winter, S. G. (1977). In search of useful theory of innovation. Research policy, 6(1):36–76.
Rosenberg, N. and Nelson, R. R. (1994). American universities and technical advance in industry. Research policy, 23(3):323–348.
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