Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Who Does R & D and Who Patents?; 3. Patents and R & D at the Firm Level: A First Look; 4. The Rate of Obsolescence of Patents, Research Gestation Lags, and the Private Rate of Return to Research Resources; 5. International Invention: Implications for Technology Market Analysis; 6. R & D and Innovation: Some Empirical Findings; 7. Long-Run Trends in Patenting; 8. Tests of a Schumpeterian Model of R & D and Market Structure; 9. An Exploration into the Determinants of Research Intensity; 10. Firm versus Industry Variability in R & D Intensity
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""An essential reference for specialists in the economics of technological change.""--D.G. McFertridge, Canadian Journal of Economics
