02682pam a2200241   4500001000500000005001700005008003900022010001600061020001500077082001400092100002200106245008900128260004300217300003400260504006600294505163200360520029801992650002602290650002802316650002502344650004902369700002202418749620181127183738.0910411s1991    maua     b    001 0 eng  a   91015795  a026207136300a338.92201 aGrossman, Gene M.10aInnovation and growth in the global economy /cGene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman.  aCambridge, Mass. :bMIT Press,cc1991.  axiv, 359 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [343]-350) and index.  aPart 1 Growth and technology: facts about growth, the  contribution of industrial innovation; technology as an  economic commodity; method and organization of the book.  Part 2 Traditional growth theory: solow; optimal savings;  learning by doing; basic research. Part 3 Expanding  product variety: brand proliferation; public knowledge  capital; industrial policies; welfare. Part 4 Rising  product quality: the basic model; endogenous quality  increments; welfare. Part 5 Factor accumulation: physical  capital; human capital; country size and resource  composition. Part 6 Small open economy: a model with  nontraded intermediates; trade and growth; trade and  welfare; international capital flows; international  knowledge flows. Part 7 Dynamic comparative advantage:  international brand proliferation; international quality  competition; multinational corporations; patent  licensing. Part 8 Hysteresis: a benchmark economy; steady  states; equal-wage trajectories; unequal-wage  trajectories; R&D subsidies. Part 9 Trade and growth:  diffusion of knowledge; trade between similar countries;  trade with uneven innovation; trade between dissimilar  countries. Part 10 international transmission of  policies: quality upgrading - a graphical treatment; R&D  subsidies; production subsidies; trade policies. Part 11  Imitation: a model of imitation; steady-state  equilibrium; determinants of innovation and imitation;  determinants of relative wages. Part 12 Product cycles:  imitation with rising product quality; steady-state  equilibrium; efficient followers; inefficient followers.  Part 13 Lessons about growth.grt  aIn traditional growth theory innovation is treated as an  exogenous process or by-product of investment in machinery  and equipment. Here, the authors develop an approach in  which innovation is viewed as a deliberate outgrowth of  investments in industrial research by profit-seeking  agents. 0aEconomic development. 0aEconomic historyy1945- 0aInternational trade. 0aTechnological innovationsxEconomic aspects.1 aHelpman, Elhanan.