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The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors
Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research & Committee on Economic Growth of the Social Science Research Council , authors
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Published Date
January 1962
Copyright
1962
ISBN
0-87014-304-2
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Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents
Front matter to "The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors"
Author(s):
Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research & Committee on Economic Growth of the Social Science Research Council
Introduction to "The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors"
Author(s):
Richard Nelson
(p. 1-16)
Part 1: Problems of Definition and Measurement
Author(s):
(p. 17-18)
Chapter 1:
Inventive Activity: Problems of Definition and Measurement
Author(s):
Simon Kuznets
(p. 19-52)
Chapter 2:
Some Difficulties in Measuring Inventive Activity
Author(s):
Barkev S. Sanders
(p. 53-90)
Part 2: Theory and Macro-Quantitative Analysis
Author(s):
(p. 91-92)
Chapter 3:
The Economics of Research and Development
Author(s):
Jora R. Minasian
(p. 93-142)
Chapter 4:
The Supply of Inventors and Inventions
Author(s):
Fritz Machlup
(p. 143-170)
Chapter 5:
Does the Market Direct the Relative Factor-Saving Effects of Technological Progress?
Author(s):
William Fellner
(p. 171-194)
Chapter 6:
Changes in Industry and in the State of Knowledge as Determinants of Industrial Invention
Author(s):
Jacob Schmookler
(p. 195-232)
Chapter 7:
The Changing Direction of Research and Development Employment Among Firms
Author(s):
James S. Worley
(p. 233-252)
Chapter 8:
Locational Differences in Inventive Effort and Their Determinants
Author(s):
Wilbur R. Thompson
(p. 253-272)
Chapter 9:
The Future of Industrial Research and Development
Author(s):
Yale Brozen
(p. 273-276)
Part 3: Case Studies
Author(s):
(p. 277-278)
Chapter 10:
Inventions in the Postwar American Aluminum Industry
Author(s):
Merton Peck
(p. 279-298)
Chapter 11:
Invention and Innovation in the Petroleum Refining Industry
Author(s):
John L. Enos
(p. 299-322)
Chapter 12:
The Origins of the Basic Inventions Underlying Du Pont's Major Product and Process Innovations, 1920 to 1950
Author(s):
Willard F. Mueller
(p. 323-358)
Part 4: Nonmarket Factors
Author(s):
(p. 359-360)
Chapter 13:
Intellect and Motive in Scientific Inventors: Implications for Supply
Author(s):
Donald W. MacKinnon
(p. 361-384)
Chapter 14:
Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within the Decentralized Firm
Author(s):
Albert H. Rubenstein
(p. 385-394)
Chapter 15:
Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within a Government Department
Author(s):
Paul W. Cherington
,
Merton Peck
&
Frederic Scherer
(p. 395-408)
Chapter 16:
Some Society-Wide Research and Development Institutions
Author(s):
Robert Merrill
(p. 409-440)
Chapter 17:
Scientific Discovery and the Rate of Invention
Author(s):
Irving Siegel
(p. 441-458)
Part 5: Efficiency in Research and Development
Author(s):
(p. 459-460)
Chapter 18:
Predictability of the Costs, Time, and Success of Development
Author(s):
A W. Marshall
&
W H. Meckling
(p. 461-476)
Chapter 19:
The Decision Making Problem in Development
Author(s):
Burton Klein
(p. 477-508)
Chapter 20:
Strategy and Organization in a System Development Project
Author(s):
Thomas A. Marschak
(p. 509-548)
Chapter 21:
The Link Between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor
Author(s):
Richard Nelson
(p. 549-584)
Part 6: Welfare Economics and Inventive Activity
Author(s):
(p. 585-586)
Chapter 22:
Inventive Activity: Government Controls and the Legal Environment
Author(s):
Jesse W. Markham
(p. 587-608)
Chapter 23:
Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention
Author(s):
Kenneth Arrow
(p. 609-626)
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