Part 1 Technological knowledge: the nature of technology sectoral patterns of technical change - towards a taxonomy and a theory the continuing, widespread (and neglected) importance of improvements in mechanical technologies. Part 2 Management: what we know about the strategic management of technology the technological competencies of the world's largest firms - complex and path-dependent, but not much variety multi-technology corporations -why they have distributed rather than distinctive core competencies technologies, products and organization in the innovating firm - what Adam Smith tells us and Joseph Schumpeter doesn't large firms in the production of the world's technology - an important case of non-globalization. Part 3 Systems of innovation: the size distribution of innovating firms in the UK - 1945-1983 chips and trajectories - how does the semiconductor influence the sources and directions of technical change? uneven (and divergent) technological accumulation among advanced countries - evidence and a framework of explanation what makes basic research economically useful? national policies for technical change - where are the increasing returns to economic research?
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