This highly accessible treatment examines the sources, structure, and economic effects of technological innovation in the twentieth-century US economy. Num Pages: 228 pages, 12 b/w illus. 15 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJ; PDR; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 348. . 2010. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th-Century America
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521646537
ISBN 13: 9780521646536
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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The first digital electronic computer, the ENIAC, was over 100 feet long, with 18,000 simultaneously functioning vacuum tubes. Now virtually every business and home in America has its own compact PC. In 1903 the Wright brothers' airplane, held together with baling wire and glue, traveled a couple hundred yards. Today fleets of streamlined jets transport millions of people per day to cities worldwide. Between discovery and application, between invention and widespread use, there is a world of innovation, of tinkering and improvements and adaptations. This is the world David Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg map out in Paths of Innovation, a tour of the intersecting routes of the technological.

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Jan Fagerberg is Professor at the University of Oslo, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). David C. Mowery is Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic
awards include the Raymond Vernon Prize from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Economic History Association's Fritz Redlich Prize, the Business History Review's Newcomen Prize, and the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award. Richard R. Nelson is a Professor at the School of
International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York

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