ONE GREAT ADVANTAGE of being given the privilege of delivering this lecture is that one
reads those given by all one's predecessors. In time this will, I suppose, become an …

Chemicals and allied products (Standard Industrial Classification 28) is the high-tech sector
about which the general public probably has the least knowledge. Yet, judged by criteria that …

Research in concerned with the acquisition of knowledge and, where the research is in the
field of science and technology, the results are potentially applicable in the engineering …

Emphasis on research has resulted in a loss of appreciation of the major engineering effort
necessary to convert basic ideas to reliable hardware. The current impression is that …

In industrial innovation the driving force is economic; that is, for success there must be the
expectation of reasonable costs and returns for the products which meet a defined market …

I am particularly indebted to professors John H. Westing and Gilbert A. Churchillat the
University of Winsconsin and Mr. Dennis F. Gallagher at Oslo Institute of …

Innovation in the Machine Tool Industry* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford
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In a recent paper, Dasgupta and Stiglitz (1980a) have suggested that there is a paucity of
microeconomic theory to explain the rate and direction of technical progress and, more …

This book is based on a study of 84 technological innovations that won Queen's Awards in
1966 and 1967. Nearly 40 of these are presented as well-documented but readable case …

The community of scholars studying technological change now draws from many disciplines.
However, almost all of those participating at the 2010 National Bureau of Economic …