The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors

Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research and Committee on Economic Growth of the Social Science Research Council

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Date: 1962
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Chapters in this book:

Introduction to "The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors" , pp 1-16

Richard Nelson

Inventive Activity: Problems of Definition and Measurement , pp 19-52

Simon Kuznets

Some Difficulties in Measuring Inventive Activity , pp 53-90

Barkev S. Sanders

The Economics of Research and Development , pp 93-142

Jora R. Minasian

The Supply of Inventors and Inventions , pp 143-170

Fritz Machlup

Does the Market Direct the Relative Factor-Saving Effects of Technological Progress? , pp 171-194

William Fellner

Changes in Industry and in the State of Knowledge as Determinants of Industrial Invention , pp 195-232

Jacob Schmookler

The Changing Direction of Research and Development Employment Among Firms , pp 233-252

James S. Worley

Locational Differences in Inventive Effort and Their Determinants , pp 253-272

Wilbur R. Thompson

The Future of Industrial Research and Development , pp 273-276

Yale Brozen

Inventions in the Postwar American Aluminum Industry , pp 279-298

Merton Peck

Invention and Innovation in the Petroleum Refining Industry , pp 299-322

John L. Enos

The Origins of the Basic Inventions Underlying Du Pont's Major Product and Process Innovations, 1920 to 1950 , pp 323-358

Willard F. Mueller

Intellect and Motive in Scientific Inventors: Implications for Supply , pp 361-384

Donald W. MacKinnon

Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within the Decentralized Firm , pp 385-394

Albert H. Rubenstein

Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within a Government Department , pp 395-408

Paul W. Cherington, Merton Peck and Frederic Scherer

Some Society-Wide Research and Development Institutions , pp 409-440

Robert Merrill

Scientific Discovery and the Rate of Invention , pp 441-458

Irving Siegel

Predictability of the Costs, Time, and Success of Development , pp 461-476

A W. Marshall and W H. Meckling

The Decision Making Problem in Development , pp 477-508

Burton Klein

Strategy and Organization in a System Development Project , pp 509-548

Thomas Marschak

The Link Between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor , pp 549-584

Richard Nelson

Inventive Activity: Government Controls and the Legal Environment , pp 587-608

Jesse W. Markham

Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention , pp 609-626

Kenneth Arrow

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