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 | | Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective by Vernon W. Ruttan ISBN-10: 9780195118711 ISBN-10: 0-19-511871-5 ISBN-13: 9780195118711 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511871-1 Hardcover 2000-09-14 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Technology, Growth, and Development uniquely presents the complexities of technical and institutional change on the foundation of modern growth theory. The author shows how the rates and directions of technical change are induced by changes in competitive funding and institutional innovations in the modern research university and industrial laboratory. In turn, technical change itself becomes a powerful source of institutional change. Organized by the author in four parts, the first-Productivity and Economic Growth-gives specific reasons for the slowing of productivity growth in the United States and other leading industrial countries during the last quarter of the twentieth century. In Part II-Sources of Technical Change-the author examines a host of economic factors that influence invention and innovation; the rate and direction of institutional change; and the adoption, diffusion, and transfer of technology. In Part III-Technical Innovation and Industrial Change-he traces the sources and impact of technical change in five strategically important industries: agriculture, electric power, chemical, computer, and biotechnology. The final section, Part IV-Technology Policy-evaluates the role of technical change in international competition, the role of science and technology in environmental policy, and the evolution of U.S. science and technology policy. Technology, Growth, and Development makes few mathematical demands on students, and will be used in courses within economics departments as well as management and public affairs. In addition, it will be required reading for professional economists, managers, and policy analysts at all levels. | ||
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Technology, Growth and Development This is an encyclopedic volume on the role of technology in economic growth in both advanced and poorer countries. The extraordinary scope of the volume includes new insights on the role of the microprocessor and molecular biology in economic growth. This book will be the starting point for all readers interested in the role of technology in the growth process. | ||
Everything you ever wanted to know about technology This great book contains everything you ever wanted to know about the interplay between technology, economic growth, development, and the environment. The book stands strong, treating both theory as well as empirical case studies comprehensively. It's full treatment of theory and exhaustive bibliography make the book THE introductory text book for any university curriculum. Extremely valuable cases studies - that will appeal also to the practitioner - are provided for agricultural innovations, biotechnologies, semiconductors, heat and power, and the chemical industry. Finally, the book blends in nicely also chapters on technology, differences in national systems of innovations and in the international diffusion of technology, as well as sustainable development issues. In short: a reference book, well written and here to last. Thanks Vernon! | ||