The Determinants of Technical Change in the Chemical Industry: Demand-Pull or Technology-Push?

C. Freeman, V. Walsh and J. Townsend

Chapter Chapter 5 in Controlling Industrial Economies, 1983, pp 83-108 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For many years now controversy has continued over the determinants of the direction and scale of inventive and scientific activity in contemporary industrialised societies. Participants in the debate have included economists, sociologists and scientific administrators as well as engineers, inventors and scientists. A related but more specialised controversy has raged among historians of science, between ‘internalists’ and ‘externalists’.

Keywords: Large Firm; Market Structure; Scientific Paper; Inventive Activity; Capital Good (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06340-6_5

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