Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Edwin Mansfield: An Appreciation

      • F. M. Scherer

      Pages 1-7

3. Innovation, Technology, and Economic Growth

   1. Flexibility and Endogenous Innovation

      • Robert M. Solow

      Pages 9-13

   2. Schumpeter and the Micro-foundations of Endogenous Growth

      • F.M. Scherer Aetna

      Pages 15-26

   3. Technology and Technology Transfer: Mansfieldian Inspirations and Subsequent Developments

      • David J. Teece

      Pages 27-43

   4. Welfare Implications of User Innovation

      • Joachim Henkel, Eric von Hippel

      Pages 45-59

   5. Underinvestment in Public Good Technologies

      • Gregory Tassey

      Pages 61-85

   6. Evaluating Public Sector R&D Programs: The Advanced Technology Program’s Investment in Wavelength References for Optical Fiber

      • Albert N. Link, John T. Scott

      Pages 87-97

4. Research and Development and Innovation

   1. Industrial R&D Laboratories: Windows on Black Boxes?

      • James D. Adams

      Pages 99-107

   2. Public Policy and Environmental Research and Development

      • John T. Scott

      Pages 109-127

   3. The Importance of R&D for Innovation: A Reassessment Using French Survey Data

      • Jacques Mairesse, Pierre Mohnen

      Pages 129-143

   4. University R&D and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Italy

      • Giuseppe Medda, Claudio Piga, Donald S. Siegel

      Pages 145-151

   5. Reflections on Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the “Golden Age” of U.S. Corporate R&D

      • Philip E. Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb

      Pages 153-171

   6. The Welfare Effects of Research and Production Joint Ventures

      • Kathryn L. Combs

      Pages 173-185

   7. Research Joint Ventures in the United States: A Descriptive Analysis

      • Albert N. Link

      Pages 187-193

5. Patenting and the Diffusion of Knowledge

   1. Exploring the Patent Explosion

      • Bronwyn H. Hall

      Pages 195-208

   2. The University and the Start-Up: Lessons from the Past Two Decades

      • Josh Lerner

      Pages 209-216

   3. Patents and Appropriation: Concerns and Evidence

      • Wesley M. Cohen

      Pages 217-231

   4. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and University-Industry Technology Transfer: A Model for Other OECD Governments?

      • David C. Mowery, Bhaven N. Sampat

      Pages 233-245

   5. Financing Constraints in the Inter Firm Diffusion of New Process Technologies

      • Alessandra Canepa, Paul Stoneman

      Pages 247-257

Edwin Mansfield was a research pioneer into the economics of R and D and technological change. As appreciation and remembrance for his scholarly contributions, eminent scholars have contributed original papers for this edited volume. The authors have followed the "Mansfieldian” approach of emphasizing economic insight and intuition over mathematical rigor and as a result are very accessable. Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield has the potential to serve as a reader in all advanced undergraduate and graduate classes/seminars in the economics of R and D and technological change. This edited volume will be the definitive work in the field.

• Analysis
• Economic Growth
• Schumpeter
• growth
• innovation

• Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

  Albert N. Link

• Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Emeritus, USA

  F. M. Scherer

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