Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective - Hardcover

Ruttan, Vernon W.

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9780195118711: Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective
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ISBN 10: 0195118715 ISBN 13: 9780195118711
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Technology, Growth, and Development uniquely presents the complexities of technical and institutional change on the foundation of modern growth theory. The author shows how the rates and directions of technical change are induced by changes in competitive funding and institutional innovations in the modern research university and industrial laboratory. In turn, technical change itself becomes a powerful source of institutional change. Organized by the author in four parts, the first-Productivity and Economic Growth-gives specific reasons for the slowing of productivity growth in the United States and other leading industrial countries during the last quarter of the twentieth century. In Part II-Sources of Technical Change-the author examines a host of economic factors that influence invention and innovation; the rate and direction of institutional change; and the adoption, diffusion, and transfer of technology. In Part III-Technical Innovation and Industrial Change-he traces the sources and impact of technical change in five strategically important industries: agriculture, electric power, chemical, computer, and biotechnology. The final section, Part IV-Technology Policy-evaluates the role of technical change in international competition, the role of science and technology in environmental policy, and the evolution of U.S. science and technology policy. Technology, Growth, and Development makes few mathematical demands on students, and will be used in courses within economics departments as well as management and public affairs. In addition, it will be required reading for professional economists, managers, and policy analysts at all levels.

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Vernon W. Ruttan is at University of Minnesota.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195118715
ISBN 13 
9780195118711
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
672
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