Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Editors' overview / Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenbert
  • The impact of technological innovation : a historical view / Nathan Rosenberg
  • Macroeconomics, technology, and economic growth : an introduction to some important issues / Michael J. Boskin
  • Microeconomics and productivity / Dale W. Jorgenson
  • Dynamic competition and productivity advances / Burton H. Klein
  • The effect of recent macroeconomic policies on innovation and productivity / Charles B. Reeder
  • Macrorealities of the information economy / Stephen S. Roach
  • Harnessing technology for growth / Robert Malpas
  • Technology and its role in modern society / Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr.
  • National science policy and technological innovation / Harvey Brooks
  • The role of the legal system in technological innovation and economic growth / Milton Katz
  • The Bhopalization of American tort law / Peter W. Huber
  • From understanding to manipulating DNA / James D. Watson
  • The physical sciences as the basis for modern technology / William O. Baker
  • Technological education / Joseph M. Pettit
  • Basic research in the universities : how much utility? / Donald Kennedy
  • An overview of innovation / Stephen J. Kline and Nathan Rosenberg
  • Microeconomics of technological innovation / Edwin Mansfield
  • Macroeconomics and microeconomics of innovation : the role of the technological environment / Ann F. Friedlaender
  • Technical change and innovation in agriculture / Vernon W. Ruttan
  • Technology adoption : the services industries / James Brian Quinn
  • Technology diffusion, public policy, and industrial competitiveness / Paul A. David
  • Determinants of innovative activity / Keith L.R. Pavitt
  • Programmed innovation
  • strategy for success / H.W. Coover
  • The chemical industry : challenges, risks, and rewards / Edwin C. Holmer
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation : the electronics industry / Gordon E. Moore
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation : biotechnology / Robert A. Swanson
  • Impact of entrepreneurship and innovation on the distribution of personal computers / David A. Norman
  • Making the transition from entrepreneur to large company / William R. Hewlett
  • Cultivating technological innovation / William J. Perry
  • The role of large banks in financing innovation / John S. Reed and Glen R. Moreno
  • A view from Wall Street / Robert H.B. Baldwin
  • Trends in financing innovation / James D. Marver
  • Technology and trade : a study of U.S. competitiveness in seven industries / N. Bruce Hannay
  • Global competition
  • the new reality : results of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness / John A. Young
  • The need for national consensus to improve competitiveness / Albert Bowers
  • Innovation, job creation, and competitiveness / Ruben F. Mettler
  • Dangers in U.S. efforts to promote international competitiveness / George C. Eads
  • Government policies for innovation and growth / Ed Zschau
  • The Japanese challenge in high technology / Daniel I. Okimoto
  • The macroeconomic background for high-tech industrialization in Japan / Masahiko Aoki
  • Capital formation in the United States and Japan / Ralph Landau and George N. Hatsopoulos.