Description Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it. The economics of property
rights and patents, in addition to industry applications, are also surveyed through literature reviews and predictions about fruitful
research directions. - Two volumes, available as a set or sold separately
Audience
Students and researchers studying technological change. Articles are written by economists for a multidisciplinary readership, including
industry professionals, attorneys, educators, and anyone interested in new technologies.
Contents Volume 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction to the handbook
- Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg The contribution of economic history to the study of innovation and technical
change: 1750-1914. - Joel Mokyr Technological change and industrial dynamics as evolutionary processes - Giovanni
Dosi and Richard R. Nelson Empirical studies of innovative activity - Wesley M. Cohen Invention
and Innovation The economics of science - Paula E. Stephan University research and public-private
interaction - Dominique Foray and Francesco Lissoni Property rights and invention - Katherine E. Rockett The geographic localization of invention - Maryann P. Feldman and Dieter F. Kogler Open User Innovation
- Eric von Hippel Learning by doing - Peter Thompson Innovative conduct in U.S. computing and
internet markets - Shane Greenstein Pharmaceutical innovation - F. M. Scherer Collective invention
and invention networks - Woody Powell and Eric Gianella Commercialization of Innovation The financing of R&D and innovation - Bronwyn Hall and Josh Lerner Markets for technologies - Ashish Arora
and Alfonso Gambardella Technological innovation and the theory of the firm: Explorations into the role of enterprise
level knowledge and capabilities - David J. Teece Volume 2: Diffusion
The diffusion of new technology - Paul Stoneman and Giuliana Battisti General purpose technologies
- Timothy Bresnahan International trade, foreign direct investment, and technology Spillovers - Wolfgang Keller Innovation outcomes Innovation and economic development - Jan Fagerberg, Martin
Srholec, and Bart Verspagen Energy, the environment, and technological change - David Popp, Richard G. Newell, and
Adam B. Jaffe The economics of innovation and technical change in agriculture - Philip G. Pardey, Julian M. Alston,
and Vernon W. Ruttan Measurement of Technical Change Growth accounting - Charles
Hulten
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