Studies on science and the innovation process [[electronic resource] ] : selected works / / by Nathan Rosenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455857803321
• Autore: Rosenberg Nathan <1927->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-75808-X; 9786612758089; 981-4273-59-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 412 p. ) : ill
• Disciplina: 338.0640973
• Soggetti: Technological innovations - Economic aspects - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. The commercial exploitation of science by American industry -- ch. 3. Academic entrepreneurship -- ch. 4. The economic impact of scientific instrumentation developed in academic laboratories -- ch. 5. Economic development and the transfer of technology : some historical perspectives -- ch. 6. A general : Purpose technology at work : The Corliss steam engine in the late nineteenth-century United States (with Manuel Trajtenberg) -- ch. 7. The role of electricity in industrial development -- ch. 8. Improvement upon improvement : long after innovation -- ch. 9. Innovation and the chain-linked model (with Stephen J. Kline) -- ch. 10. Endogenous forces in twentieth-century America -- ch. 11. Why do firms do basic research (with their own money)? -- ch. 12. From the scalpel to the scope : endoscopic innovations in gastroenterology, gynecology, and surgery (with Annetine C. Gelijns) -- ch. 13. Capturing the unexpected benefits of medical research (with Annetine C. Gelijns and Alan Moskowitz) -- ch. 14. Some critical episodes in the progress of medical iInnovation : an Anglo-American perspective -- ch. 15. Chemical engineering as a general purpose technology -- ch. 16. Technological change in chemicals : the role of university-industry relations -- ch. 17. Economic experiments -- ch. 18. Aeronautical engineering -- ch. 19. Schumpeter and history.
• Sommario/riassunto: Science and technology are intertwined in the twentieth century. However, little attention has been paid to the forces that have brought about these phenomena. Many writers have taken it for granted that causality runs from science to technology. This book suggests that history and empirical evidence lead to a reality that is far more complex.