Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1. Richard Nelson (1992), `The Roles of Firms in Technical Advance: A Perspective from Evolutionary Theory', in Giovanni Dosi, Renato Giannetti and Pier Angelo Toninelli (eds), Technology and Enterprise in a Historical Perspective, Chapter 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 164-84

2. Keith Pavitt (1992), `Some Foundations for a Theory of the Large Innovating Firm', in Giovanni Dosi, Renato Giannetti and Pier Angelo Toninelli (eds), Technology and Enterprise in a Historical Perspective, Chapter 7, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 212-28

3. Jacob Schmookler (1972), `The Size of Firm and the Growth of Knowledge', in Zvi Griliches and Leonid Hurwicz (eds), Patents, Invention and Economic Change: Data and Selected Essays, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 36-46

PART II FROM COAL TAR DYES TO IG FARBENINDUSTRIE

4. John J. Beer (1958), `Coal Tar Dye Manufacture and the Origins of the Modern Industrial Research Laboratory', Isis, 49, Part 2, (156), June, 123-31

5. Georg Meyer-Thurow (1982), `The Industrialization of Invention: A Case Study from the German Chemical Industry', Isis, 73 (268), September, 363-81

6. Ernst Homburg (1992), `The Emergence of Research Laboratories in the Dyestuffs Industry, 1870-1900', British Journal for the History of Science, 25, March, 91-111

7. Ulrich Marsch (1994), `Strategies for Success: Research Organization in German Chemical Companies and IG Farben until 1936', History and Technology, 12, 23-77

PART III THE RESEARCH LABORATORY AND THE US CORPORATE ECONOMY

8. Leonard S. Reich (1977), `Research, Patents, and the Struggle to Control Radio: A Study of Big Business and the Uses of Industrial Research', Business History Review, LI (2), Summer, 208-35

9. Mark Clark (1993),`Suppressing Innovation: Bell Laboratories and Magnetic Recording', Technology and Culture, 34 (3), July, 516-38

10. David A. Hounshell (1992), `Continuity and Change in the Management of Industrial Research: The Du Pont Company, 1902-1980', in Giovanni Dosi, Renato Giannetti and Pier Angelo Toninelli (eds), Technology and Enterprise in a Historical Perspective, Chapter 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 231-60

11. Micheal Aaron Dennis (1987), `Accounting for Research: New Histories of Corporate Laboratories and the Social History of American Science', Social Studies of Science, 17, 479-518

12. Walter G. Vincenti (1984), `Technological Knowledge without Science: The Innovation of Flush Riveting in American Airplanes, ca. 1930-ca. 1950', Technology and Culture, 25 (3), July, 540-76

13. Eric Schatzberg (1994), `Ideology and Technical Choice: The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States, 1920-1945`, Technology and Culture, 35 (1), January, 34-69

14. David F. Noble (1978), `Social Choice in Machine Design: The Case of Automatically Controlled Machine Tools, and a Challenge for Labor', Politics & Society, 8 (3-4), 313-47

PART IV INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES

15. C. Freeman (1963), `The Plastics Industry: A Comparative Study of Research and Innovation', National Institute Economic Review, 26, November, 22-62

16. Jonathan Liebenau (1984), `Industrial R&D in Pharmaceutical Firms in the Early Twentieth Century' Business History, XXVI (3), November, 329-46

17. Steven W. Usselman (1993), `IBM and its Imitators: Organizational Capabilities and the Emergence of the International Computer Industry', Business and Economic History, 22 (2), Winter, 1-35

18. John Cantwell (1995), `The Globalisation of Technology: What Remains of the Product Cycle Model?', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 19 (1), February, 155-74

PART V THE NOT-SO-PECULIAR BRITISH CASE

19. David C. Mowery (1984), `Firm Structure, Government Policy, and the Organization of Industrial Research: Great Britain and the United States, 1900-1950', Business History Review, 58 (4), Winter, 504-31

20. Michael Sanderson (1972), `Research and the Firm in British Industry, 1919-39', Science Studies, 2 (2), April, 107-51

21. D.E.H. Edgerton and S.M. Horrocks (1994), `British Industrial Research and Development before 1945', Economic History Review, XLVII (2), 213-38

PART VI THE CASE OF JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

22. Yukiko Fukasaku (1992), `Origins of Japanese Industrial Research: Prewar Government Policy and In-House Research at Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard', Research Policy, 21, 197-213

23. Hiroyuki Odagiri and Akira Goto (1993), `The Japanese System of Innovation: Past, Present, and Future', in Richard R. Nelson (ed.), National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis, New York: Oxford University Press, 76-114

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