Drawing on a deep knowledge of economic and technological history as well as on the tools of economic analysis, Richard Nelson describes the intimate connections among public policies, science-based universities, and the growth of technology He compares national innovation systems, and explores both the rise of the United States as the world's ожлым premier technological power during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century and the diminishing of that lead as other countries have largely caught up.  Издание 1997ISBN 0674001729.