Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
4. Contents ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. I. The Conceptual Framework
8. 2. Issues in Assessing the Contribution of Research and Development to Productivity Growth 17
9. II. R&D and Productivity at the Firm Level: The Evidence
10. 3. Returns to Research and Development Expenditures in the Private Sector 49
11. 4. Productivity, R&D, and Basic Research at the Firm Level in the 1970s 82
12. 5. Productivity and R&D at the Firm Level 100
13. 6. Productivity Growth and R&D at the Business Level: Results from the PIMS Data Base 134
14. 7. Comparing Productivity Growth: An Exploration of French and U.S. Industrial and Firm Data 157
15. 8. R&D and Productivity Growth: Comparing Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Firms 187
16. III. R&D and Productivity at the Industry Level
17. 9. R&D and Productivity Growth at the Industry Level: Is There Still a Relationship? 213
18. 10. Interindustry Technology Flows and Productivity Growth: A Reexamination 241
19. 11. The Search for R&D Spillovers 251
20. 12. R&D and Productivity: The Unfinished Business 269
21. IV. Patent Statistics
22. 13. Patent Statistics as Economic Indicators: A Survey 287
23. V. Interim Conclusions
24. 14. Productivity, R&D, and the Data Constraint 347
25. Author Index 375
26. Subject Index 379