Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield: The Economics of R&D, Innovation, and Technological Change

Edwin Mansfield was a research pioneer into the economics of R and D and technological change. As appreciation and remembrance for his scholarly contributions, eminent scholars have contributed original papers for this edited volume. The authors have followed the "Mansfieldian” approach of emphasizing economic insight and intuition over mathematical rigor and as a result are very accessable. Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield has the potential to serve as a reader in all advanced undergraduate and graduate classes/seminars in the economics of R and D and technological change. This edited volume will be the definitive work in the field.

Albert N. Link is professor of economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and editor in chief of the "Journal of Technology Transfer". His is the author of more than forty books, most recently "Public Goods, Public Gains", "Government as Entrepreneur", and "Cyber Security: Economic Strategies and Public Policy Alternatives."