Technical Innovation and British Economic Performance

Edited by Keith Pavitt

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Date: 1980
ISBN: 978-1-349-04561-7
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction and Summary

Keith Pavitt

Ch 2 Britain’s Industrial Performance 1850–1950: a Failure to Adjust

W. B. Walker

Ch 3 Innovative Activities and Export Shares: some Comparisons between Industries and Countries

Keith Pavitt and Luc Soete

Ch 4 British Attitudes to Engineering Education: a Historical Perspective

Austen Albu

Ch 5 British Management Compared

Nuala Swords-Isherwood

Ch 6 Technical Change in the Defence Industry

Mary Kaldor

Ch 7 Innovation in Textile Machinery

Roy Rothwell

Ch 8 Innovation in Coal-mining Machinery: the Case of the Anderton Shearer Loader

Joe Townsend

Ch 9 Forklift Trucks

Peter Senker

Ch 10 Merchant Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering

Austen Albu

Ch 11 Innovation and Competitiveness in Portable Power Tools

W. B. Walker and J. P. Gardiner

Ch 12 Innovation in the British Steel Industry

Jonathan Aylen

Ch 13 Heavy Electrical Plant

A. J. Surrey, C. M. Buckley and M. J. Robson

Ch 14 Nuclear Reactor Development in Britain

C. M. Buckley and R. Day

Ch 15 The Broad Base of Technical Change in the Gas Industry

Howard J. Rush

Ch 16 The UK Semiconductor Industry

E. Sciberras

Ch 17 Policies in Industry

Roy Rothwell

Ch 18 Government Policy

C. Freeman

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