This book explores the design and implementation of technology policies to support high-tech firms, influenced by international practices. It critiques U.S. debates for demanding immediate results and ignoring global interdependencies. The volume offers an analytical framework and examines the aerospace and semiconductor industries' development.
This handbook provides academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation.
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.
The book presents a comprehensive exploration of the interplay between historical events, economic factors, and policy discussions that foster technological progress and economic development. It delves into the conditions necessary for innovation and growth, providing insights that blend various academic disciplines to enhance understanding of these critical themes.
Since the early 1980s, universities in the United States have greatly expanded their patenting and licensing activities. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee, among other authorities, have argued that this surge contributed to the economic boom of the 1990s. And, many observers have attributed this trend to the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. Using quantitative analysis and detailed case studies, this book tests that conventional wisdom and assesses the effects of the Act, examining the diverse channels through which commercialization has occurred over the 20th century and since the passage of the Act.