Technological Change and Economic Performance

Albert N. Link is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USADonald S. Siegel is Professor of Industrial Economics at the University of Nottingham, UK

'I believe that this book would serve as a useful complement to graduate students... it emphasizes the tremendous institutional knowledge and methodological eclecticism common to the distinguished economists who pioneered modern study of the economics of innovation.'- Research Policy, 2005

• 1. Introduction2. Some Preliminary Concepts3. Early Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Economic Growth4. The Production Function Concept of Technological Change5. Alternative Frameworks for Measuring Technical Progress and Productivity6. Trends in Productivity Growth7. The Productivity Slowdown8. Sources of Technical Knowledge9. The Technology - Productivity Growth Relationship10. Effects of Information Technology on Workers and Economic Performance11. Research Partnerships and Economic Performance12. Conclusions