Tables of Contents for Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth

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Part I. Introduction: 1. The need for a new framework for R&

D analysis and policy

Part II. The Development Of The Institutional Structure, 1860-1940

2. The growing role of science in the innovation process

3. The beginnings of the commercial exploitation of science by US industry

4. The US research system before 1945

5. The organisation of industrial revolution in Great Britain, 1900-1950

Part III. The Development Of The Postwar System, 1940-1987

6. The evolution of federal investment in research and development since World War II

7. The US commercial aircraft industry

Part IV. New Environment, New Research Organisations: 8. The changing context of innovation, 1980-present

9. International and domestic collaboration in research and development

10. The merger of technology and trade policies

11. Concluding observations

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