Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 21, issue 6, 1992

Trends in the substitution of production factors to technology--empirical analysis of the inducing impact of the energy crisis on Japanese industrial pp. 481-505

Chihiro Watanabe

Top managers education and R&D investment pp. 507-511

F. M. Scherer and Keun Huh

High temperature superconductivity research in the USSR pp. 513-532

M. J. Berry

The effect of network structure in industrial diffusion processes pp. 533-552

David F. Midgley, Pamela D. Morrison and John H. Roberts

Viewing the Earth: the social construction of the Landsat Satellite System: Pamela E. Mack, (MIT press, Cambridge, MA, 1990) 270 pp., $27.50 pp. 554-555

John M. Logsdon

Technology & investment: Critical issues for the 1990's: Enrico Deiaco, Erik Hornell and Graham Vickery (eds.) (Pinter, London, 1990) ix + 232 pp pp. 555-557

Shlomo Maital

Entrepreneurs in high technology: Lessons from MIT and beyond: Roberts, E. (Oxford University Press, New York, 1991) 385 pp., $27.95 pp. 557-558

Mark Dodgson

Volume 21, issue 5, 1992

Competitive advantages from in-house scientific research: The US pharmaceutical industry in the 1980s pp. 391-407

Alfonso Gambardella

Institutional relationships and technology commercialization: Limitations of market based policy pp. 409-421

John D. Aram, Leonard H. Lynn and N. Mohan Reddy

The German R & D system in transition: Empirical results and prospects of future development pp. 423-436

Frieder Meyer-Krahmer

Technology policy for industrialization: An integrative framework and Korea's experience pp. 437-452

Linsu Kim and Carl J. Dahlman

Shifting economies: From craft production to flexible systems and software factories pp. 453-480

Michael A. Cusumano

Volume 21, issue 4, 1992

Networks and innovation in a modular system: Lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries pp. 297-313

Richard Langlois and Paul Robertson

Explaining downstream innovation by commodity suppliers with expected innovation benefit pp. 315-333

Pieter A. VanderWerf

Private and quasi-social rates of return on pharmaceutical R&D in Japan pp. 335-345

Hiroyuki Odagiri and Naoki Murakami

Why do firms cooperate on R&D? an empirical study pp. 347-360

Alfred Kleinknecht and Jeroen O. N. Reijnen

Dual technological trees: Assessing the intensity and strategic significance of technological change pp. 361-380

Thomas Durand

Scientific instrumentation and university research pp. 381-390

Nathan Rosenberg

Volume 21, issue 3, 1992

Origins of Japanese industrial research: Prewar government policy and in-house research at Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard pp. 197-213

Yukiko Fukasaku

The management and evaluation of technological programs and the dynamics of techno-economic networks: The case of the AFME pp. 215-236

M. Callon, P. Laredo, V. Rabeharisoa, T. Gonard and T. Leray

Status report: Linkage between technology and science pp. 237-249

Francis Narin and Dominic Olivastro

The public sector as first user of innovations pp. 251-263

Robert Dalpe, Chris DeBresson and Hu Xiaoping

Strategy, structure and performance in product development: Observations from the auto industry pp. 265-293

Michael A. Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka

Academic research and industrial innovation: A further note pp. 295-296

Edwin Mansfield

Volume 21, issue 2, 1992

Choices in R&D and business portfolio in the electronics industry: What the bibliometric data show pp. 97-124

Coen C. F. Frumau

The U.S. national innovation system: Origins and prospects for change pp. 125-144

David C. Mowery

The Southern Californian medical device industry: Innovation, new firm formation, and location pp. 145-161

Jan Maarten de Vet and Allen J. Scott

Leading companies and networks of strategic alliances in information technologies pp. 163-190

John Hagedoorn and Jos Schakenraad

Artificial experts: Social knowledge and intelligent machines: H. Collins (MIT Press, London, 1990) pp. 266, [UK pound]17.95, ISBN 262 031 68X pp. 191-192

Mike Sharples

The spatial context of technological development: Riccardo Cappellin and Peter Nijkamp (eds) (Avebury, Aldershot, 1990) pp. 500 + i, [UK pound]45.00, ISBN 0 566 07149 5 pp. 192-192

R. P. Oakey

Information technology: Impacts, policies and future perspectives: F. Meyer-Krahmer, J. Muller and B. Preissl (eds) (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1990) pp. 229, DM65, ISBN 3 540 52396 0 pp. 192-194

Robin Mansell

Industry recipes: The nature and sources of managerial judgement: J.-C. Spender (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1989) pp. 240 pp. 194-195

Scott Moss

Volume 21, issue 1, 1992

Why are Japanese firms so innovative in engineering technology? pp. 1-12

Ryuhei Wakasugi

The influence of technology and demand factors on firm size and industrial structure in the DRAM market -- 1973-1988 pp. 13-25

David T. Methe

A quantitative assessment of interdisciplinary structures in science and technology: Co-classification analysis of energy research pp. 27-44

Robert J. W. Tijssen

Agreements between firms and the technological life cycle model: Evidence from information technologies pp. 45-62

Gian Carlo Cainarca, Massimo G. Colombo and Sergio Mariotti

Technological innovation as a gateway to entry: The case of the telecommunications equipment industry pp. 63-77

Michael J. Dowling and Timothy W. Ruefli

Specialization and size of technological activities in industrial countries: The analysis of patent data pp. 79-93

Daniele Archibugi and Mario Pianta

The evaluation of scientific research: David Evered and Sara Harnett (eds.), (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1989) pp. 95-96

David Roessner

Volume 20, issue 6, 1991

Patterns of diffusion of electronics technologies: An international comparison with special reference to the Italian case pp. 515-529

Enzo Arcangeli, Giovanni Dosi and Massimo Moggi

R&D management in Japanese research institutes pp. 531-558

Shogo Sakakura and Masakazu Kobayashi

Innovation policy making in a federalist system: Lessons from the states for U.S. federal innovation policy making pp. 559-577

Robert Atkinson

More evidence on the undercounting of small firm R&D pp. 579-587

Alfred Kleinknecht and Jeroen O. N. Reijnen

Volume 20, issue 5, 1991

Networks of innovators:A review and introduction to the issue pp. 363-379

Chris DeBresson and Fernand Amesse

Networks and market creation pp. 381-392

Morris Teubal, Tamar Yinnon and Ehud Zuscovitch

The secrets of industry are in the air: Industrial cooperation and the organizational dynamics of the innovative firm pp. 393-405

Dominique Foray

Flexibility, hierarchy and regional development: The changing structure of industrial production systems and their forms of governance in the 1990s pp. 407-422

Michael Storper and Bennett Harrison

The origins and dynamics of production networks in Silicon Valley pp. 423-437

AnnaLee Saxenian

The aerospace-electronics industrial complex of Southern California: The formative years, 1940-1960 pp. 439-456

Allen J. Scott

"There are two sides to every story": Innovation and collaboration within networks of large and small firms pp. 457-468

Helen Lawton Smith, Keith Dickson and Stephen Lloyd Smith

Technological discontinuities and flexible production networks: The case of Switzerland and the world watch industry pp. 469-485

Amy Glasmeier

Public policies for local networks of innovators pp. 487-497

Patrizio Bianchi and Nicola Bellini

Networks of innovators: A synthesis of research issues pp. 499-514

C. Freeman

Volume 20, issue 4, 1991

The technological base of the new enterprise pp. 283-298

Edward B. Roberts

Sources of innovative activities and industrial organization in Italy pp. 299-313

Daniele Archibugi, Sergio Cesaratto and Giorgio Sirilli

Private research and public benefit: The private seed industry for sorghum and pearl millet in India pp. 315-324

Carl E. Pray, Sharmila Ribeiro, Rolf A. E. Mueller and P. Parthasarathy Rao

One hundred major Swedish technical innovations, from 1945 to 1980 pp. 325-344

J. Torkel Wallmark and Douglas H. McQueen

The functions of technology infrastructure in a competitive economy pp. 345-361

Gregory Tassey

Volume 20, issue 3, 1991

The political economy of R&D taxonomies pp. 179-194

Harvey A. Averch

The use of a levy/grant system as an alternative to tax based incentives to R&D pp. 195-201

Paul Stoneman

Using academic technology: Transfer methods and licensing incidence in the commercialization of American diagnostic imaging equipment research, 1954-1988 pp. 203-216

Will Mitchell

Conflicting perceptions of plans for an academic centre pp. 217-235

Greg Myers

The governance of innovation: Vertical integration and collaborative arrangements in the biotechnology industry pp. 237-249

Gary P. Pisano

Direct validation of citation counts as indicators of industrially important patents pp. 251-259

M. B. Albert, D. Avery, F. Narin and P. McAllister

Technical and political change in basic research: The case of the European X-ray Observatory Satellite pp. 261-273

Andrew Barry

Technological development as an evolutionary process: A study of the interaction of information, process, and control technologies: John Hagedoorn,Paull Kalff and Jaap Korpel, (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1988) pp. 220, Dfl 190 pp. 275-276

John Metcalfe

The new technology -- A survival guide to new materials, supercomputers and global communications for the 1990s: D.N.Chorofas, (Sigma Press, Wilmslow, 1990) pp. 410, [UK pound]14.95 pp. 275-275

Christopher Freeman

Office automation: The labour process and women's work in Britain: Juliet Webster, (Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York and London, 1990) pp. xiii + 141, [UK pound]9.95 pp. 276-277

Ian Miles

Innovating for failure: Government policy and the early British computer industry: John Hendry, (MIT Press, London, 1989) pp. 240, [UK pound]31.50 pp. 277-279

Mike Hobday

The innovative choice: An economic analysis of the dynamics of technology: Mario Amendola and Jean-Luc Gaffard, (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988) pp. xi + 116, price [UK pound]19.50 pp. 279-280

G. N. von Tunzelmann

Volume 20, issue 2, 1991

A technological communications costs model of R&D consortia as public policy pp. 87-107

Todd Watkins

What makes basic research economically useful? pp. 109-119

Keith Pavitt

Guidelines for successfully transferring government-sponsored innovations pp. 121-143

Marilyn A. Brown, Linda G. Berry and Rajeev Goel

Resource allocation for agricultural research pp. 145-152

Ariel Dinar

Informal technology transfer between firms: Cooperation through information trading pp. 153-170

Stephan Schrader

Industrial research and sources of innovation: A cross-industry analysis of Italian manufacturing firms pp. 171-178

Giovanni Napolitano

Volume 20, issue 1, 1991

Academic research and industrial innovation pp. 1-12

Edwin Mansfield

The individual inventor and the role of entrepreneurship: A survey of the Canadian evidence pp. 13-27

Fernand Amesse, Claude Desranleau, Hamid Etemad, Yves Fortier and Louise Seguin-Dulude

Evaluating the funding of strategic science: Some lessons from British experience pp. 29-43

Jacqueline Senker

Government policy and performance of the Indian engineering industry pp. 45-56

Staffan Jacobsson

Managing the introduction of new process technology: International differences in a multi-plant network pp. 57-76

Marcie J. Tyre

Learning to industrialize: Sanjaya Lall, (Macmillan, London, 1987) pp. 259, [UK pound]15.95 pp. 77-81

Atul Wad

Research foresight: Priority-setting in science: Ben R. Martin and John Irvine, (Pinter Publishers, London, 1989) pp. 366, [UK pound]40.00 pp. 81-81

Dianne Rahm

The emergence of biotechnology: Luigi Orsenigo, (Pinter Publishers, London, 1989), pp. 230, [UK pound]34.00 pp. 83-84

David T. Kingsbury

Spatial differentiation in the social impact of technology: the case of the Irish Republic: Dirk-Jan F. Kamann, (Avebury (Gower Publishing Group), Aldershot) xii + 314 pp., [UK pound]29.50 pp. 84-85

Ian Miles