Tsutomu Harada is Professor of Industrial Economics at Kobe University, Japan. He received a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and a PhD in Business Administration from Kobe University. His research interests include innovation economics, technology management, and strategy.

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• Introduction Part I: Outside the Black Box: Path-dependent Growth 1. Path-dependent Economic Growth with Technological Trajectory 2. Path-dependent Economic Progress and Regress 3. Division of Labor in Innovation between General Purpose Technology and Special Purpose Technology Part II: Dynamics of the Black Box: Intersectoral Growth 4. Advantages of Backwardness and Forwardness with Shifting Comparative Advantage 5. Changing Productive Relations, Linkage Effects and Industrialization 6. Structural Change and Economic Growth with Relation-specific Investment Part III: Inside the Black Box: Innovation Mechanism 7. Focusing Device as Innovation Mechanism and Cluster Growth 8. Managing Innovation Probabilities through Focusing Device 9. Three-step Flow of Knowledge Communication Part IV: Measuring the Black Box: Innovation Flow Matrix and Policy Evaluation 10. Model of Intersectoral Flow of Technology using Technology and Innovation flow Matrices 11. Estimating Innovation Flow Matrix and Innovation Linkages in the East Asian region and the United States 12. Endogenous Innovation and Macroeconomic Shocks in a New Keynesian DSGE Model