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Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present

Title
Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present / edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff ; foreword by William Janeway.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Lamoreaux, Naomi R.
  • Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.
Description
xii, 503 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • High technology industries > United States > History
  • Technological innovations > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the organization and finance of innovation in American history / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- 1. Financing invention during the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- 2. The organizing and financing of innovative companies in the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry / Steven Klepper -- 3. Why did finance capitalism and the Second Industrial Revolution arise in the 1890s? / Larry Neal and Lance E. Davis -- 4. Funding new industries : a historical perspective on the financing role of the U.S. stock market in the twentieth century / Mary A. O'Sullivan -- 5. Stock market swings and the value of innovation, 1908-1929 / Tom Nicholas -- 6. Financing fiber : Corning's invasion of the telecommunications market / Margaret B. W. Graham -- 7. The federal role in financing major innovations : information technology during the postwar period / Kira R. Fabrizio and David C. Mowery -- 8. Learning the hard way : IBM and the sources of innovation in early computing / Steven W. Usselman -- 9. Trading knowledge : an exploration of patent protection and other determinants of market transactions in technology and R&D / Ashish Arora, Marco Ceccagnoli and Wesley M. Cohen -- 10. The governance of new firms : a functional perspective / Josh Lerner -- 11. Real effects of knowledge capital on going public and market valuation / Michael R. Darby and Lynne G. Zucker -- 12. Afterword / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff.
ISBN
  • 0262122898 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780262122894 (hbk.)
LCCN
2006030095
OCLC
  • ocm71348669
  • 71348669
  • SCSB-5931160
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