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Engines of Innovation: U.S. Industrial Research at the End of an Era
Engines of Innovation US Industrial Research at the End of an Era Author:Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School Press America's global competitiveness depends heavily on the fruits of scientific research. In decades past, industrial laboratories like AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were wellsprings of powerful new technologies. Yet the competitive environment of the 1980s and 1990s has forced maanagers to reassess industrial research as... more » a business priority. In Engines of Innovation, top technical managers of Alcoa, IBM, Intel, and Xerox, along with leading scholars of the history and economics of technological change, discuss the consequences of this paradox for industry and the economy as a whole. The authors explore new ideas for linking research with commercial markets and identify the policy choices for industry, government, and universities as together they shape a new era in industrial research.« less