Inventors, firms, and the market for technology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Patents, engineering professionals, and the pipelines of innovation / Steven W. Usselman -- Sugar institute learns to organize information exchange / David Genesove and Wallace P. Mullin -- Learning by new experiences / Kazuhiro Mishina -- Assets, organizations, strategies, and traditions / David A. Hounshell -- Sears, Roebuck in the twentieth century / Daniel M.G. Raff and Peter Temin -- Marshall's Trees and the global forest / Leslie Hannah -- Can a nation learn? / Gavin Wright