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Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present
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Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present

Author: Naomi R Lamoreaux; Kenneth Lee Sokoloff
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Leading economists and economic historians offer case studies and theoretical perspectives that fill a longstanding gap in the existing literature on technology-driven industrial development,  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
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Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present.
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)646843142
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Naomi R Lamoreaux; Kenneth Lee Sokoloff
ISBN: 0262122898 9780262122894
OCLC Number: 71348669
Description: xii, 503 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The organization and finance of innovation in American history / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff --
Financing invention during the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, Kenneth L. Sokoloff --
The organizing and financing of innovative companies in the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry / Steven Klepper --
Why did finance capitalism and the Second Industrial Revolution arise in the 1890s? / Larry Neal, Lance E. Davis --
Funding new industries : a historical perspective on the financing role of the U.S. stock market in the twentieth century / Mary A. O'Sullivan --
Stock market swings and the value of innovation, 1908-1929 / Tom Nicholas --
Financing fiber : Corning's invasion of the telecommunications market / Margaret B.W. Graham --
The federal role in financing major innovations : information technology during the postwar period / Kira R. Fabrizio, David C. Mowery --
Learning the hard way : IBM and the sources of innovation in early computing / Steven W. Usselman --
Trading knowledge : an exploration of patent protection and other determinants of market transactions in technology and R & D / Ashish Arora, Marco Ceccagnoli, Wesley M. Cohen --
The governance of new firms : a functional perspective / Josh Lerner --
Real effects of knowledge capital on going public and market valuation / Michael R. Darby, Lynne G. Zucker.
Responsibility: edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff ; with a foreword by William Janeway.
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