Knowledge and Industrial Organization
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international symposium on research and development, industrial change and economic policy organized and hosted by the University of Karlstad, Viinnland, Sweden. Situated about halfway between Stockholm and Oslo, Karlstad stands on the River...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 20 New Issues in Science and Technology Policy: Discontinuities in the Process of Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Transformation
- 21. Micro-Macro Interactions and US Industrial Change
- 22. Swedish Science Policy: The Government’s New Research Bill
- 23. A Ten-Year Review of Science Policy in Sweden
- List of Contributors
- 1. From the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Economy
- I. Industrial Organization in the Knowledge Economy
- a) Intelligent Factor Inputs
- 2. Productivity in Manufacturing and the Division of Mental Labor
- 3. What Have We Learned in the Path from Gödel and Turing to Artificial Intelligence?
- b) Knowledge Development and Diffusion
- 4. Knowledge, Nodes and Networks: An Analytical Perspective
- 5. Innovation, Diffusion and Regions
- 6. Technological and Institutional Innovations in the Service Sector
- 7. Research and Development, Corporate Organisation and Industrial Location: Prospects for Regional Development
- 8. Diffusion of Technological Change and Economic Growth
- II. Technological and Economic Interactions: Some Empirical Studies
- a) Long Cycles of Technological Transition
- 9. The Barrier-Breakthrough Model of Innovation and the Life Cycle Model of Industrial Evolution as Applied to the U.S. Electrical Industry
- 10. The Evolution of High Technology in the Boston Region 1920–1980
- 11. Innovation, R and D, and Firm Growth in Robotics: Japan and the United States
- 12. Spatial Diffusion of Information Technology in Sweden
- 13. Innovative Behaviour of Industrial Firms: Results from a Dutch Empirical Study
- 14. Innovating Behaviour of Swiss Industry — Findings and Policy Conclusions
- c) R&D and Property Rights
- 15. Infrastructure for Technological Change: Intellectual Property Rights
- III. The Political Economy of Structural Change
- a) Interdependencies between Industrial and Regional Structural Change in the USA
- 16. High-Technology Location and Worker Mobility in the U.S.
- 17. Economic Expansion and Establishment Growth on the Periphery
- 18. The Economic, Industrial, and Regional Consequences of Defence-led Innovation
- b) The Micro-Macro Policy Problem
- 19. Some Reflections on Innovation Stimulating Policy