Economics of Innovation. Vol.2

How does technology advance? How can we best assimilate innovation? These questions and others are considered by experts on the theories and applications of technological innovations. Considering subjects as diverse as the diffusion of new technologies and their industrial applications, governmental policies, and manifestations of innovation in our institutions, history, and environment, our contributors map milestones in research and speculate about the roads ahead; Wasteful, inefficient, and frequently wrongheaded, the process of technological changes is here revealed as a describable, scientific force. Two volumes, available separately and as a set.

Considering subjects as diverse as the diffusion of various technologies and their industrial applications, governmental policies, and manifestations of innovation in our institutions, history, and environment, this title maps milestones in research and speculates about the roads ahead.

Zusammenfassung

"For too long the policy importance of innovation has taken a back seat to short-term stimulus initiatives. Hall and Rosenberg have assembled a scholarly collection of papers that provide a timely guide for rediscovering the role of innovation in economic growth." --Albert N. Link, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Inhalt

Volume 2

I. Diffusion
The diffusion of new technology
General purpose technologies
International trade, foreign direct investment, and technology spillovers

II. Innovation Outcomes
Innovation and economic development
Energy, the environment, and technological change
The economics of innovation and technical change in agriculture

III. Measurement of Innovation
Growth accounting
Returns to R&D and productivity
Patent statistics as innovation indicators
Using innovation surveys for econometric analysis

IV. Policy Towards Innovation
Systems of innovation
Economics of technology policy
Military R&D and innovation