Technology and the Wealth of Nations

Abstract

1. Introduction Nathan Rosenberg, Ralph Landau, and David C. Mower Part I. Conceptual Overview: 2. Capital, technology and economic growth Michael J. Boskin and Lawrence J. Lau 3. What is 'commercial' and what is 'public' about technology and what should be? Richard R. Nelson 4. Successful commercialization in the chemical process industries Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenberg 5. International differences in economic fluctuations Steven N. Durlauf Part II. The 'Non-R&D' Influences on Technology Commercialization: 6. Comparing the cost of capital in the United States and Japan B. Douglas Bernheim and J. B. Shoven 7. Strategies for capturing the financial benefits from technological innovation David J. Teece 8. liability and insurance problems in the commercialization of new products: a perspective from the United States and England Peter Huber Part III. International Contrasts in Technology Commercialization: 9. The Japanese pattern of innovation and its evolution Ken-Ichi Imai 10. The organisation of the innovative process Franco Malerba Part IV. The International Environment and the Commercialization Process: 11. Dollar devaluation, interest rate volatility and the duration of investment in the United States Ronald McKinnon and David Robinson 12. Japan's management of global innovation technology management crossing borders Kiyonori Sakakibara and D. Eleanor Westney 13. International collaborative ventures and the commercialization of new technologies David C. Mower Part V. Managing the Commercialization of Technology: 14. The technology-product relationship: early and stages Ralph Gomory 15. Profiting from innovation William G. Howard Jr, and Bruce R. Guile 16. Managing the growth of technical information Sergio Barabaschi Name index Subject index.