The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity : : Economic and Social Factors / / National Bureau of Economic Research.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: National Bureau of Economic Research,
• MitwirkendeR: Arrow, Kenneth J.,; Brozen, Yale,; Cherington, Paul W.,; Enos, John L.,; Fellner, William,; Klein, Burton H.,; Kuznets, Simon,; MacKinnon, Donald W.,; Machlup, Fritz,; Markham, Jesse W.,; Marschak, Thomas A.,; Marshall, A. W.,; Meckling, W. H.,; Merrill, Robert S.,; Minasian, Jora R.,; Mueller, Willard F.,; Nelson, Richard R.,; Peck, Merton J.,; Rubenstein, Albert H.,; Sanders, Barkev S.,; Scherer, Frederic M.,; Schmookler, Jacob,; Siegel, Irving H.,; Thompson, Wilbur R.,; Worley, James S.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nelson, Richard R.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1962
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1925
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (648 p.)

The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories.Originally published in 1962.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Problems of definition and measurement -- Inventive Activity : Problems of Definition and Measurement -- Some Difficulties in Measuring Inventive Activity -- Part II. Theory and Macro-quantitative analysis -- The Economics of Research and Development -- The Supply of Inventors and Inventions -- Does the Market Direct the Relative Factor-Saving Effects of Technological Progress? -- Changes in Industry and in the State of Knowledge as Determinants of Industrial Invention -- The Changing Direction of Research and Development Employment Among Firms -- Locational Differences in Inventive Effort and Their Determinants -- The Future of Industrial Research and Development -- Part III. Case studies -- Inventions in the Postwar American Aluminum Industry -- Invention and Innovation in the Petroleum Refining Industry -- The Origins of the Basic Inventions Underlying Du Pont's Major Product and Process Innovations, 1920 to 1950 -- Part IV. Nonmarket factors -- Intellect and Motive in Scientific Inventors: Implications for Supply -- Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within the Decentralized Firm -- Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within a Government Department -- Some Society-Wide Research and Development Institutions -- Scientific Discovery and the Rate of Invention -- Part V. Efficiency in research and development -- Predictability of the Costs, Time, and Success of Development -- The Decision Making Problem in Development -- Strategy and Organization in a System Development Project -- The Link Between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor -- Part VI. Welfare economics and Inventive activity -- Inventive Activity: Government Controls and the Legal Environment -- Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention -- Subject index -- Author index