Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small,
but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the …

Este artículo propone una interpretación del desarrollo como proceso de acumulación de
capacidades tecnológicas y sociales, en función del aprovechamiento de ventanas de …

Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so?
These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of …

Technology has usually been treated as a specialized area in development policies, dealt
with by separate institutions. Yet, as this chapter aims to show, technology is much more …

This article reviews evidence on the changing structure of the US innovation ecosystem and
then develops a simple model of the rise and fall of the large corporate lab. We suggest that …

How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors in Franco's regime and Spain's
forced modernization. In this book, Lino Camprubí argues that science and technology were …

This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two
internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in …

Over the last four decades, using the evolving theories of multinational enterprise as a
measure and means of asking questions and, at the same time, developing their own …

It is not often that I find myself in agreement with The Economist on a matter of economic
theory. But, in its issue in the week before Christmas 1998, it repeated an exercise of ten …

Why did independent inventors account for over half of US patents by 1930 and more than
three times the number granted to R&D firms? Using new data on patents and historical …