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Title:

Learning and technological change / edited by Ross Thomson.

Publisher:

Macmillan ;

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

xiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
Technological innovations--History.--History.
Economic history

Other Authors:

Thomson, Ross.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Technical change as cultural evolution / Richard R. Nelson -- Learning and technological change : the perspective from business history / Alfred D. Chandler Jr. -- Nineteenth-century American patent management as an invisible college of technology / Carolyn C. Cooper -- Thinking about technological change : linear and evolutionary models / John K. Smith -- Economic forms of technological change / Ross Thomson -- A model of the productivity gap : convergence or divergence? / Donald J. Harris -- Innovative learning and institutions in the process of development : on the microfoundation of growth regimes / Francesca Chiaromonte, Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Orsenigo -- The dynamics of innovation and diffusion with competing techniques / Willi Semmler -- Learning and the dynamics of international competitive advantage / William Lazonick -- History and its lessons / William N. Parker.
Transformational growth and learning : developing craft technology into scientific mass production / Edward J. Nell -- Borrowing technology or innovating : an exploration of two paths to industrial development / Alice H. Amsden and Takashi Hikino -- Epilogue : institutions, learning and technological change / Ross Thomson.

ISBN:

9780333556832
0333556836 (Macmillan Press)
9780312095918
0312095910

OCLC:

(OCoLC)27186183

LCCN:

92046516

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)