Using a database built on company patenting in the U.S., the Authors examine the scale and distribution of the technological activities of the world's largest manufacturing firms. The relative importance of large firms in the world's technology is analysed to determine their share of the world...

This book addresses the crucial question of how countries which have suffered losses in productivity levels and innovatory momentum over perhaps twenty-thirty years can rediscover their dynamism. Because the contributors have the immediate experience of tackling such complex problems and possess...