1. Front matter,THE RATE AND DIRECTION OF INVENTIVE ACTIVITY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FACTORS : (p. -12 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Introduction to "The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors": Richard Nelson (p. 1 - 16) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. PART 1 PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT: (p. 17 - 18) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Inventive Activity: Problems of Definition and Measurement : Simon Kuznets (p. 19 - 52) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Some Difficulties in Measuring Inventive Activity: Barkev S. Sanders (p. 53 - 90) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. PART 2 THEORY AND MACRO-QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS: (p. 91 - 92) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. The Economics of Research and Development: Jora R. Minasian (p. 93 - 142) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. The Supply of Inventors and Inventions: Fritz Machiup (p. 143 - 170) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Does the Market Direct the Relative Factor-Saving Effects of Technological Progress?: William Feliner (p. 171 - 194) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Changes in Industry and in the State of Knowledge as Determinants of Industrial Invention: Jacob Schmookler (p. 195 - 232) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. The Changing Direction of Research and Development Employment Among Firms: James S. Worley (p. 233 - 252) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. Locational Differences in Inventive Effort and Their Determinants: Wilbur R. Thompson (p. 253 - 272) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. The Future of Industrial Research and Development: Yale Brozen (p. 273 - 276) (bibliographic info) (download)

14. PART 3 CASE STUDIES: (p. 277 - 278) (bibliographic info) (download)

15. Inventions in the Postwar American Aluminum Industry: Merton Peck (p. 279 - 298) (bibliographic info) (download)

16. Invention and Innovation in the Petroleum Refining Industry: John L. Enos (p. 299 - 322) (bibliographic info) (download)

17. The Origins of the Basic Inventions Underlying Du Pont: Willard F. Mueller (p. 323 - 358) (bibliographic info) (download)

18. PART 4 NONMARKET FACTORS: (p. 359 - 360) (bibliographic info) (download)

19. Intellect and Motive in Scientific Inventors: Implications for Supply: Donald W. MacKinnon (p. 361 - 384) (bibliographic info) (download)

20. Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within the Decentralized Firm: Albert H. Rubenstein (p. 385 - 394) (bibliographic info) (download)

21. Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within a Government Department: Paul W. Cherington, Merton Peck, Frederic Scherer (p. 395 - 408) (bibliographic info) (download)

22. Some Society-Wide Research and Development Institutions: Robert Merrill (p. 409 - 440) (bibliographic info) (download)

23. Scientific Discovery and the Rate of Invention : Irving Siegel (p. 441 - 458) (bibliographic info) (download)

24. PART 5 EFFICIENCY IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: (p. 459 - 460) (bibliographic info) (download)

25. Predictability of the Costs, Time, and Success of Development: A W. Marshall, W H. Meckling (p. 461 - 476) (bibliographic info) (download)

26. The Decision Making Problem in Development: Burton Klein (p. 477 - 508) (bibliographic info) (download)

27. Strategy and Organization in a System Development Project: Thomas A. Marschak (p. 509 - 548) (bibliographic info) (download)

28. The Link Between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor: Richard Nelson (p. 549 - 584) (bibliographic info) (download)

29. PART 6 WELFARE ECONOMICS AND INVENTIVE ACTIVITY: (p. 585 - 586) (bibliographic info) (download)

30. Inventive Activity: Government Controls and the Legal Environment: Jesse W. Markham (p. 587 - 608) (bibliographic info) (download)

31. Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention: Kenneth Arrow (p. 609 - 626) (bibliographic info) (download)