Knowledge and Industrial Organization -

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Sommaire:
1. From the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Economy.- I. Industrial Organization in the Knowledge Economy.- a) Intelligent Factor Inputs.- 2. Productivity in Manufacturing and the Division of Mental Labor.- 3. What Have We Learned in the Path from G?del and Turing to Artificial Intelligence?.- b) Knowledge Development and Diffusion.- 4. Knowledge, Nodes and Networks: An Analytical Perspective.- 5. Innovation, Diffusion and Regions.- 6. Technological and Institutional Innovations in the Service Sector.- 7. Research and Development, Corporate Organisation and Industrial Location: Prospects for Regional Development.- 8. Diffusion of Technological Change and Economic Growth.- II. Technological and Economic Interactions: Some Empirical Studies.- a) Long Cycles of Technological Transition.- 9. The Barrier-Breakthrough Model of Innovation and the Life Cycle Model of Industrial Evolution as Applied to the U.S. Electrical Industry.- 10. The Evolution of High Technology in the Boston Region 1920-1980.- 11. Innovation, R and D, and Firm Growth in Robotics: Japan and the United States.- 12. Spatial Diffusion of Information Technology in Sweden.- 13. Innovative Behaviour of Industrial Firms: Results from a Dutch Empirical Study.- 14. Innovating Behaviour of Swiss Industry - Findings and Policy Conclusions.- c) R&D and Property Rights.- 15. Infrastructure for Technological Change: Intellectual Property Rights.- III. The Political Economy of Structural Change.- a) Interdependencies between Industrial and Regional Structural Change in the USA.- 16. High-Technology Location and Worker Mobility in the U.S..- 17. Economic Expansion and Establishment Growth on the Periphery.- 18. The Economic, Industrial, and Regional Consequences of Defence-led Innovation.- b) The Micro-Macro Policy Problem.- 19. Some Reflections on Innovation Stimulating Policy.- 20 New Issues in Science and Technology Policy: Discontinuities in the Process of Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Transformation.- 21. Micro-Macro Interactions and US Industrial Change.- 22. Swedish Science Policy: The Government's New Research Bill.- 23. A Ten-Year Review of Science Policy in Sweden.- List of Contributors.