Learning and Technological Change

List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; R.Thomson - PART 1: APPROACHES AND INSTITUTIONS - Technical Change as Cultural Evolution; R.R.Nelson - Learning and Technological Change: The Perspective from Business History; A.D.Chandler Jr - Nineteenth-century American Patent Management as an Invisible College of Technology; C.C.Cooper - PART 2: DIFFUSION, LEARNING, AND ONGOING TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE - Thinking about Technological Change: Linear and Evolutionary Models; J.K.Smith - Economic Forms of Technological Change; R.Thomson - A Model of the Productivity Gap: Convergence or Divergence?; D.J.Harris - PART 3: COMPETITION AND LEARNING - Innovative Learning and Institutions in the Process of Development: On the Microfoundation of Growth Regimes; F.Chiaromonte, G.Dosi & L.Orsenigo - The Dynamics of Innovation and Diffusion with Competing Techniques; W.Semmler - Learning and the Dynamics of International Competitive Advantage; W.Lazonick - PART 4: TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION - History and Its Lessons; W.N.Parker - Transformational Growth and Learning: Developing Craft Technology into Scientific Mass Production; E.Nell - Borrowing Technology or Innovating: An Exploration of Two Paths to Industrial Development; A.H.Amsden & T.Hikino - EPILOGUE - Institutions, Learning and Technological Change; R.Thomson - Index