Technology and investment : crucial issues for the 1990s / edited by Enrico Deiaco, Erik Hörnell, Graham Vickery.

London : Pinter Publishers, 1990.

vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Sponsored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Technology and investment : crucial issues for the 1990s / Enrico Deiaco, Erik Hörnell and Graham Vickery -- On diffusion, investment and the process of technological change / Stan Metcalfe -- New technology and work organization / Paul Osterman -- Business strategies for new technologies / Ove Granstrand ... [et al.] -- Technological trajectories and corporate strategies in the diffusion of biotechnology / Margaret Sharp -- Productivity analysis : a micro-to-macro perspective / Bo Carlsson -- General-purpose engines, investment and productivity growth : from the dynamo revolution to the computer revolution / Paul A. David -- The efficiency of innovation subsidies / Stefan Fölster -- The determinants of investment in R&D and the role of public policies : an evaluation / Frieder Meyer-Krahmer.

Trade, technology and national competition / John Zysman with Laura Tyson, Giovanni Dosi and Stephen Cohen -- Concluding remarks / Enrico Deiaco, Erik Hörnell and Graham Vickery.

Includes bibliographical references and index.