Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
I: The Conceptual Framework
2: Issues in Assessing the Contribution of Research and Development to Productivity Growth
II: R&D and Productivity at the Firm Level: The Evidence
3: Returns to Research and Development Expenditures in the Private Sector
4: Productivity, R&D, and Basic Research at the Firm Level in the 1970s
5: Productivity and R&D at the Firm Level
6: Productivity Growth and R&D at the Business Level: Results from the PIMS Data Base
7: Comparing Productivity Growth: An Exploration of French and U.S. Industrial and Firm Data
8: R&D and Productivity Growth: Comparing Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Firms
III: R&D and Productivity at the Industry Level
9: R&D and Productivity Growth at the Industry Level: Is There Still a Relationship?
10: Interindustry Technology Flows and Productivity Growth: A Reexamination
11: The Search for R&D Spillovers
12: R&D and Productivity: The Unfinished Business
IV: Patent Statistics
13: Patent Statistics as Economic Indicators: A Survey
V: Interim Conclusions
14: Productivity, R&D, and the Data Constraint
Author Index
Subject Index