Using quantitative analysis and detailed case studies, this book tests that conventional wisdom and assesses the effects of the Act, examining the diverse channels through which commercialization has occurred over the 20th century and since ...

This book offers a unique synthesis of historical studies, economic analysis, and policy debate on the conditions conducive to technological advance and economic growth.

This is the world David Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg map out in Paths of Innovation, a tour of the intersecting routes of technological change.

This volume addresses these deficiencies in the analysis of technology policy by examining a number of issues faced by managers and public officials in industrial and industrializing economies that are now linked closely through ...

The book will be important to a wide range of readers with a stake in U.S. industrial performance: corporate executives, investors, labor representatives, faculty and students in business and economics, and public policymakers.

The sixteen papers in this volume contribute to three important tasks.

Many industries and some firms in nearly all industries retain leading-edge capacity in the United States. However, the book concludes that is no reason for complacency about the future outlook.

This report addresses a number of issues that have surfaced in the debates over the impact of technological change on employment.

Modern commercial aircraft are complex products that incorporate innovations in technologies ranging from advanced materials to software and electronics.