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Learning and Technological Change

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  • © 1993

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  1. Ross Thomson

    1. University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ross Thomson
      Pages 1-5

  3. Approaches and Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-8
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    2. Technical Change as Cultural Evolution

      • Richard R. Nelson
      Pages 9-23

    3. Learning and Technological Change: The Perspective from Business History

      • Alfred D. Chandler Jr
      Pages 24-39

    4. Nineteenth-Century American Patent Management as an Invisible College of Technology

      • Carolyn C. Cooper
      Pages 40-61

  4. Diffusion, Learning and Ongoing Technological Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-64
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    2. Thinking about Technological Change: Linear and Evolutionary Models

      • John K. Smith
      Pages 65-79

    3. Economic Forms of Technological Change

      • Ross Thomson
      Pages 80-99

    4. A Model of the Productivity Gap: Convergence or Divergence?

      • Donald J. Harris
      Pages 100-114

  5. Competition and Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-116
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    2. Innovative Learning and Institutions in the Process of Development: On the Microfoundation of Growth Regimes

      • Francesca Chiaromonte, Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Orsenigo
      Pages 117-149

    3. The Dynamics of Innovation and Diffusion with Competing Techniques

      • Willi Semmler
      Pages 150-171

    4. Learning and the Dynamics of International Competitive Advantage

      • William Lazonick
      Pages 172-197

  6. Technological Development and Economic Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-200
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    2. History and its Lessons

      • William N. Parker
      Pages 201-216

    3. Transformational Growth and Learning: Developing Craft Technology into Scientific Mass Production

      • Edward J. Nell
      Pages 217-242

    4. Borrowing Technology or Innovating: An Exploration of the Two Paths to Industrial Development

      • Alice H. Amsden, Takashi Hikino
      Pages 243-266

    5. Epilogue: Institutions, Learning and Technological Change

      • Ross Thomson
      Pages 267-279

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 281-290
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In this book, fifteen prominent scholars of the economy, business, and technology argue that technical change can fruitfully be interpreted as an institutionally structured learning process. These essays show that the analysis of knowledge-generating institutions - including firms, industries, patenting systems, and occupations - provides important insights into the pace, direction, and persistence of technological change. The authors use these insights to both reshape economic theory and reinterpret the economic development of Britain, the USA, Germany and Japan.

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  • University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

    Ross Thomson

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