Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenberg, editors

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• 1 Front Matter; 2 Editors' Overview; 3 The Impact of Techological Innovation: A Historical View; 4 Macroeconomics, Technology, and Economic Growth: An Introduction to Some Important Issues; 5 Microeconomics and Productivity; 6 Dynamic Competition and Productivity Advances; 7 The Effect of Recent Macroeconomic Policies on Innovation and Productivity; 8 Macrorealities of the Information Economy; 9 Harnessing Technology for Growth; 10 Technology and Its Role in Modern Society; 11 National Science Policy and Technoligical Innovation; 12 The Role of the Legal System in Technological Innovation and Economic Growth; 13 The Bhopalization of American Tort Law; 14 From Understanding to Manipulating DNA; 15 The Physical Sciences As the Basis for Modern Technology; 16 Technological Education; 17 Basic Research in the Universities: How Much Utility?; 18 An Overview of Innovation; 19 Microeconomics of Technological Innovation; 20 Macroeconomics and Microeconomics of Innovation: The Role of the Technological Environment; 21 Technical Change and Innovation in Agriculture; 22 Technology Adoption: The Services Industries; 23 Technology Diffusion, Public Policy, and Industrial Competitiveness; 24 Determinants of Innovative Activity; 25 Programmed Innovation--Strategy for Success; 26 The Chemical Industry: Challenges, Risks, and Rewards; 27 Entrepeneurship and Innovation: The Electronics Industry; 28 Entrepeneurship and Innovation: Biotechnology; 29 Impact of Entrepeneurship and Innovation on the Distribution of Personal Computers; 30 Making the Transition From Entrepeneur to Large Company; 31 Cultivating Technological Innovation; 32 The Role of Large Banks in Financing Innovation; 33 A View From Wall Street; 34 Trends in Financing Innovation; 35 Technology and Trade: A Study of U.S. Competitiveness in Seven Industries; 36 Global Competition--The New Reality: Results of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness; 37 The Need for National Consensus to Improve; 38 Innovation, Job Creation, and Competitiveness; 39 Dangers in U.S. Efforts to Promote International Competitiveness; 40 Government Policies for Innovation and Growth; 41 The Japanese Challenge in High Technology; 42 The Macroeconomic Background for High-Tech Industrialization in Japan; 43 Capital Formation in the United States and apan; 44 Contributors; 45 Index