Comparative Studies of Technological Evolution

• Introduction (H. Chesbrough, R.A.Burgelman). Part 1: Assembling the elephant: A review of empirical studies on the impact of technical change upon incumbent firms (H. Chesbrough). Part 2: Two best ways? Institutions and the evolution of the US and Japanese semi-conductor industries (J. West). Part 3: Mobility of engineers and cross border knowledge building (J.Y. Song, P. Almeida, G. Wu). Part 4: Change or Die; The Adoption of Bio-technology in the Japanese and US pharmaceutical industries (M. Darby, L. Zucker). Part 5: Technological distance spatial distance and sources of knowledge; New entrants in new bio-technology (M. Lynskey). Part 6: US Japan patent systems (M. Sakakibara). Part 7: Comparing catalysts of change; evolution and institutional differences in the venture capital industries in the US, Japan and Germany (W. Kuemmerle).

This is a worthy collection of papers by leading scholars on a variety of subjects that touch technological innovation in different ways. As such it is a welcome addition to our knowledge on the institutions and organisations nurturing technological change. Journal of Evolutionary Economics