The Positive Sum Strategy: Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth

This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of the relationship between technology and economic growth. Many of the 42 chapters discuss the political and corporate decisions for what one author calls a "Competitiveness Policy." As contributor John A. Young states, "Technology is our strongest advantage in world competition. Yet we do not capitalize on our preeminent position, and other countries are rapidly closing the gap." This lively volume provides many fresh insights including "two unusually balanced and illuminating discussions of Japan," Science noted.

• Front Matter
• Editors' Overview
• The Impact of Techological Innovation: A Historical View
• Macroeconomics, Technology, and Economic Growth: An Introduction to Some Important Issues
• Microeconomics and Productivity
• Dynamic Competition and Productivity Advances
• The Effect of Recent Macroeconomic Policies on Innovation and Productivity
• Macrorealities of the Information Economy
• Harnessing Technology for Growth
• Technology and Its Role in Modern Society
• National Science Policy and Technoligical Innovation
• The Role of the Legal System in Technological Innovation and Economic Growth
• The Bhopalization of American Tort Law
• From Understanding to Manipulating DNA
• The Physical Sciences As the Basis for Modern Technology
• Technological Education
• Basic Research in the Universities: How Much Utility?
• An Overview of Innovation
• Microeconomics of Technological Innovation
• Macroeconomics and Microeconomics of Innovation: The Role of the Technological Environment
• Technical Change and Innovation in Agriculture
• Technology Adoption: The Services Industries
• Technology Diffusion, Public Policy, and Industrial Competitiveness
• Determinants of Innovative Activity
• Programmed Innovation--Strategy for Success
• The Chemical Industry: Challenges, Risks, and Rewards
• Entrepeneurship and Innovation: The Electronics Industry
• Entrepeneurship and Innovation: Biotechnology
• Impact of Entrepeneurship and Innovation on the Distribution of Personal Computers
• Making the Transition From Entrepeneur to Large Company
• Cultivating Technological Innovation
• The Role of Large Banks in Financing Innovation
• A View From Wall Street
• Trends in Financing Innovation
• Technology and Trade: A Study of U.S. Competitiveness in Seven Industries
• Global Competition--The New Reality: Results of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness
• The Need for National Consensus to Improve
• Innovation, Job Creation, and Competitiveness
• Dangers in U.S. Efforts to Promote International Competitiveness
• Government Policies for Innovation and Growth
• The Japanese Challenge in High Technology
• The Macroeconomic Background for High-Tech Industrialization in Japan
• Capital Formation in the United States and apan
• Contributors
• Index