What has happened to U.S. technological leadership? / Richard R. Nelson -- Japan's technological capabilities and its future / Sully Taylor and Kōzō Yamamura -- West German technology in the 1980s / Ernst-Jürgen Horn -- The impact of industrial structure and industrial policy on international...

This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What...

The race for global innovation advantage -- Explaining U.S. economic decline -- Learning from the wrong masters: lessons from UK industrial decline -- Why do so many refuse to see U.S. structural economic decline? -- What are innovation and innovation policy and why are they important? --...

This book offers a new explanation why venture capital in investments differ substantially between countries. Recent literature has attributed these differences to differences in the financial architecture and tax regulations. By contrast, this book shows by using simulations of a general...