Innovation, Evolution of Industry and Economic Growth

Volume 1: Part 1 The product life cycle and industry evolution: research and development costs as a barrier to entry, Dennis C. Mueller and John E. Tilton; the life cycle of a competitive industry, Boyan Jovanovic and Glenn M. MacDonald; entry, exit, growth and innovation over the product life cycle, Steven Klepper; technological extinctions of industrial firms - an inquiry into their nature and causes, Stevel Klepper and Kenneth L. Simons. Part 2 The start-up of new firms: what do we know about entry?, P.A. Geroski; spin-offs and the new firm formation process, David A. Garvin; new firms, David B. Audretsch; entry, industry growth and the micro-dynamics of industry supply, John C. Hause and Gunnar Du Rietz. Part 3 Sources and implications of diversity: heterogeneous firms and the organization of production, Walter Y. Oi; the fates of "De Novo" and "De Alio" producers in the American automobile industry 1885-1981, Glenn R. Carroll et al; the anatomy of industry R&D intensity distributions, Wesley M. Cohen and Steven Klepper. Part 4 The size distribution of firms: the size distribution of business firms, Herbert A. Simon and Charles P. Bonini; entry, Gibrat's law, innovation and the growth of firms, Edwin Mansfield; selection and the evolution of industry, Boyan Jovanovic. Part 5 Growth: the relationship between firm size and firm growth in the US manufacturing sector, Bronwyn H. Hall; the growth and failure of US manufacturing plants, Timothy Dunne et al; Gibrat's legacy, John Sutton. Volume 2: Part 1 Survival: new firm surival - new results using a hazard function, David B. Audretsch and Talat Mahmood; life duration of new firms, Jose Mata and Pedro Portugal; on the turnover of business firms and business managers, Thomas J. Holmes and James A. Schmitz, Jr.; the role of technology use in the survival and growth of manufacturing plants, Mark Doms et al. Part 2 Learning and adaptation: the learning curve and competition, A. Michael Spence; the learning curve, technology barriers to entry and competitive survival in the chemical processing industries, Marvin B. Lieberman; selection versus evolutionary adaptation - learning and post-entry performance, John R. Baldwin and Mohammed Rafiquzzaman; new-firm survival and the technological regime, David B. Audretsch; empirical implications of alternative models of firm dynamics, Ariel Pakes and Richard Ericson. Part 3 Productivity: productivity dynamics in manufacturing plants, Martin Neil Baily et al; productivity growth in Chile and Colombia - the role of entry, exit and learning, Lili Liu and James R. Tybout; entry, innovation and productivity growth, Paul A. Geroski; productivity and changes in ownership of manufacturing plants, Frank R. Lichtenberg and Donald Siegel. Part 4 Turbulence: information, mobility and profit, Dennis C. Mueller; small firms' seedbed role and the concept of turbulence, M.E. Beesley and R.T. Hamilton; industry evolution with sunk costs and uncertain market conditions, Val Euge