Prosumer model: implementation for ECHEMTEST electronic tests

Abstract

During the most recent meeting of Master Up (monday 30th october) I was given the opportunity of presenting a report about the role innovation plays in modern economics and, more specifically, which are the perspectives of intervention for small companies (as Master up is, the company I am currently doing a six-month training period as part of my Master’s degree path in International Business and Management by Mr. Runfola ’s chair).

Throughout last years, economics’ literature has been giving much more importance to innovation as one of the main, if not the most important, driver of economic growth, especially in the most developed economies. For these the accumulation of capital it does not seem to be enough to spur economic growth and, according to economists as Solow, when capital is not enough to make economies grow, only innovation through technical progress can make an economy more competitive and productive. In particular modern economies are evolving rapidly towards new models defined learning economies (OECD, 1996; Morone & Taylor, 2006) 1. In this paper I will try to illustrate, through the analysis of various economic theories, how new models of distribution of knowledge, like the prosumer model, can create a knowledge network, capable to sustain and spur innovation and so economic growth.