Technology, growth, and development : an induced innovation perspective

Author(s)

• Ruttan, Vernon W.

Bibliographic Information

Technology, growth, and development : an induced innovation perspective

Vernon W. Ruttan

Oxford University Press, 2001

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Technology, Growth and Development places the process of technical change firmly within the context of modern growth theory. It goes beyond conventional growth theory in its emphasis on both induced technical and institutional change. The rate and direction of technical change is viewed as induced by changes in relative resource endowments and by institutional innovations such as the modern research university and the industrial research laboratory. The economic and institutional sources of technical change are analysed for a series of general purpose technologies in five industries - the agricultural, electric power, chemical, computer, and biotechnology industries. A final section is devoted to issues of technology policy, including competitiveness, the environment, the U.S science and technology policy, and the transition to sustainable growth at the global level.

Table of Contents

Part I: Productivity and Economic Growth 1: Is Economic Growth Sustainable? Doomsters and Boomsters The Dismal Scene Limits to Growth Productivity Growth The Book Plan References Figures Table 2: Catching Up and Falling Behind The Convergence Controversy Growth Economics Accounting for Economic Growth Falling Behind Perspective References Boxes Tables Figures Appendix 2 Technical Change and Productivity Growth: The Simple Analytics Figures Part II: The Sources of Technical Change 3: The Process of Invention and Innovation The Process of Invention and Invention Cumulative Synthesis: Three Cases Linkages Between Science and Technology The Research Institution Learning by Doing and Using Perspective References Box Figures 4: Technical and Institutional Innovation Sources of Technical Change Sources of Institutional Innovation A Pattern Model of Induced Innovation References Boxes Tables Figures 5: Technology Adaption, Diffusion, and Transfer Convergence of Traditions The Diffusion of Agricultural Technology Diffusion of Industrial Technology New Theory and New Method The Product Cycle and International Trade Endogenous Growth and Technology Transfer The Costs of Technology Transfer Resistance to Technology Perspective References Table Figures Part III: Technical Innovation and Industrial Change 6: Technical Change and Agricultural Development Models of Agricultural Development Induced Technical Change in Agriculture Scientific and Technical Constraints Resource and Environmental Constraints Agricultural Research Systems Lessons From Experience References Box Tables Figures 7: Light, Power, and Energy The Battle of the Systems The Transformation of Industrial Energy Use The Great Oil Shock The Exhaustion of Scale Institutional Innovation What Happened to Alternative Policy? Perspectives References Box Tables Figures 8: The Chemical Industry Inventors, Inventions and Technical Change Chemical Engineering and the Petrochemical Revolution International Diffusion Maturity Perspective References Box Tables Figures 9: The Computer and Semi-conductor Industries From Calcuators to Computers IBM Sets the Mainframe Standard The Transistor Resolution Microcomputers and Minicomputers The Software Industry International Diffusion Industrial Policy Computers and Economic Growth Computers and Society References Boxes Figures Tables 10: The Biotechnology Industries From Biological Technology to Biotechnology Molecular Biology and Biotechnology The University-Industrial Complex Institutional Innovation Commercial Biotechnology Market Structure Industrial Policy and International Competition Biotechnology and The Food Industries Biotechnology in the Twenty-First Century References Boxes Tables Figures Part IV: Technology Policy 11: Technical Change in Three Systems American Systems of Technical Innovation The Japanese System German Systems of Technical Innovation Systems of Technical Innovation Technology, Trade, and Competitiveness Perspective References Box Tables Figures 12: Technology, Resources, and Environment Three Waves of Concern Resource Economics Environmental Economics Ecological Economics Environmental Impacts of Production Environmental Impacts of Consumption Emission Trading Global Climate Change Perspective References Boxes Tables Figurs 13: Science and Technology Policy Principles of Science and Technology Policy The Patent System Military Procurement Politics of Science and Technology Policy Experience with Public Investment Perspective References Boxes Figures Tables 14: The Transition to Sustainable Development What Have We Learned? The Sustainability Critique Modeling the Future Sustainability Transitions Intellectual Changes Perspective References Figure

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Details

• NCID: BA48560369
• ISBN:
  • 9780195118711
• LCCN: 00029124
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 656 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 338.064
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
  • LCSH : Economic development