ABSTRACT
Innovation studies have made a lot of progress over the last decades in understanding technical change. They have showed that technical change is not a haphazard process but typically patterned and highly cumulative. In the havoc of the world, paths emerge, through the use of technologies, giving rise to path dependencies for which no one has really opted. These factors act as constraining and shaping forces upon the choices of actors involved in technical change. In Chapter 2 we introduced the concept of technological regime to refer to the correlated set of factors that gives rise to rules to which the actors adhere consciously and unconsciously.
