cumulativeness

With reference to the sectoral composition of technological activity, the significance of cumulativeness, incremental change, and a varying degree of specialisation can be assessed.

- It's not clear what rules on cumulativeness inform the savings in the Marginal Abatement Cost "curve" DECC provide, also on p.10 of the "What Measures" document op cit.

Cumulativeness, for example, the way in which scientists explicitly build, via references and reviews, on the work of their predecessors and competitors, although clearly a central feature of science, can nonetheless be found in somewhat different form in literary traditions.