Technology Infrastructure

ISBN-13: 9780415472661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 160 str.

Antonelli Crist

Opis

This volume seeks to understand technology infrastructure as an element of a sector's technology platform and of a national innovation system. It also examines the processes by which such infrastructure is embodied in standards or diffused through various institutional frameworks.

Spis treści

1. Technology Infrastructure: Introduction  Cristiano Antonelli, Albert N. Link and Stan Metcalfe  2. Modelling and Measuring the Economic Roles of Technology Infrastructure Gregory Tassey  3. Public Technology Infrastructure, R&D Sourcing, and Research Joint Ventures James D. Adams, Mircea Marcu and Andrew Wang  4. Public–Private Partnership to Develop Technology Infrastructure: A Case Study of the Economic Returns of DNA Diagnostics  Alan C. O’Connor and Brent R. Rowe  5. Research Networks as Infrastructure for Knowledge Diffusion in European Regions  Lorenzo Cassi, Nicoletta Corrocher, Franco Malerba and Nicholas Vonortas  6. Intelligent Machine Technology and Productivity Growth  David P. Leech and John T. Scott  7. To Admit or Not to Admit: The Question of Research Park Size  Stephen K. Layson, Dennis P. Leyden and John Neufeld  8. Innovation Platforms and the Governance of Knowledge: Evidence from Italy and the U.K.  Davide Consoli and Pier Paolo Patrucco  9. Assessing the Relative Performance of University Technology Transfer in the U.S. and U.K.: A Stochastic Distance Function Approach  Donald Siegel, Mike Wright, Wendy Chapple and Andy Lockett  10. Placing Innovation: An Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity  Philip Auerswald and Rajendra Kulkarni  11. Barriers to the Diffusion of Nanotechnology  Barry Bozeman, John Hardin and Albert N. Link

O autorze

Cristiano Antonelli is chair professor of economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Torino and Director of the graduate programme of the School of Economics of Institutions and Creativity. He is the managing editor of Economics of Innovation and New Technology and an associate editor of Information Economics and Policy. Albert N. Link is professor of economics at theUniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA. Stan Metcalfe is Emeritus Professor at University of Manchester, Visiting Professor at the Curtin University of Technology and University of Queensland, and Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge University.