Economists need to understand some fundamental aspects of science in order to measure and analyse the process of technological change. This book explores the interrelationships between economics, science and technology in order to find ways of improving economists' approaches to technical...

Making Silicon Valley in China : Zhongguancun -- From offspring to rebel : the birth of ZGC and the transformation of China's science and technology establishments, 1950s-1980s -- Foreign "wolf" and local "lamb" : multinational companies and the resurgence of ZGC in the 1990s -- The Internet and...