Description |
xiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Resources, technology and production: an overview -- 3. The microeconomics of production and technological change -- 4. Returns to scale, economics of scale, economics of scope, and learning -- 5. The evaluation of industrial performance -- 6. Inventing as an economic activity -- 7. The economics of the patent system -- 8. Development and innovation -- 9. The diffusion of innovations -- 10. The evolution of basic technologies -- 11. Government and technological change -- 12. Technology and international economic relations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Subject |
Production (Economic theory)
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
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LC no. |
96111503 |
ISBN |
0750624337 |
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