The Positive Sum Strategy:

Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth

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Publication Year:1986

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Table of Contents
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Front Matter	i-xvi
Editors' Overview	1-16	(skim)
The Impact of Techological Innovation: A Historical View	17-32	(skim)
Macroeconomics, Technology, and Economic Growth: An Introduction to Some Important Issues	33-56	(skim)
Microeconomics and Productivity	57-76	(skim)
Dynamic Competition and Productivity Advances	77-88	(skim)
The Effect of Recent Macroeconomic Policies on Innovation and Productivity	89-92	(skim)
Macrorealities of the Information Economy	93-104	(skim)
Harnessing Technology for Growth	105-114	(skim)
Technology and Its Role in Modern Society	115-118	(skim)
National Science Policy and Technoligical Innovation	119-168	(skim)
The Role of the Legal System in Technological Innovation and Economic Growth	169-190	(skim)
The Bhopalization of American Tort Law	191-212	(skim)
From Understanding to Manipulating DNA	213-226	(skim)
The Physical Sciences As the Basis for Modern Technology	227-254	(skim)
Technological Education	255-262	(skim)
Basic Research in the Universities: How Much Utility?	263-274	(skim)
An Overview of Innovation	275-306	(skim)
Microeconomics of Technological Innovation	307-326	(skim)
Macroeconomics and Microeconomics of Innovation: The Role of the Technological Environment	327-332	(skim)
Technical Change and Innovation in Agriculture	333-356	(skim)
Technology Adoption: The Services Industries	357-372	(skim)
Technology Diffusion, Public Policy, and Industrial Competitiveness	373-392	(skim)
Determinants of Innovative Activity	393-398	(skim)
Programmed Innovation--Strategy for Success	399-416	(skim)
The Chemical Industry: Challenges, Risks, and Rewards	417-422	(skim)
Entrepeneurship and Innovation: The Electronics Industry	423-428	(skim)
Entrepeneurship and Innovation: Biotechnology	429-436	(skim)
Impact of Entrepeneurship and Innovation on the Distribution of Personal Computers	437-440	(skim)
Making the Transition From Entrepeneur to Large Company	441-442	(skim)
Cultivating Technological Innovation	443-452	(skim)
The Role of Large Banks in Financing Innovation	453-466	(skim)
A View From Wall Street	467-472	(skim)
Trends in Financing Innovation	473-478	(skim)
Technology and Trade: A Study of U.S. Competitiveness in Seven Industries	479-500	(skim)
Global Competition--The New Reality: Results of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness	501-510	(skim)
The Need for National Consensus to Improve	511-516	(skim)
Innovation, Job Creation, and Competitiveness	517-526	(skim)
Dangers in U.S. Efforts to Promote International Competitiveness	527-534	(skim)
Government Policies for Innovation and Growth	535-540	(skim)
The Japanese Challenge in High Technology	541-568	(skim)
The Macroeconomic Background for High-Tech Industrialization in Japan	569-582	(skim)
Capital Formation in the United States and apan	583-606	(skim)
Contributors	607-622	(skim)
Index	623-640	(skim)

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This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of the relationship between technology and economic growth. Many of the 42 chapters discuss the political and corporate decisions for what one author calls a "Competitiveness Policy." As contributor John A. Young states, "Technology is our strongest advantage in world competition. Yet we do not capitalize on our preeminent position, and other countries are rapidly closing the gap." This lively volume provides many fresh insights including "two unusually balanced and illuminating discussions of Japan," Science noted.

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