The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Inventive Activity : Problems of Definition and Measurement, pg. 19*Some Difficulties in Measuring Inventive Activity, pg. 53*The Economics of Research and Development, pg. 93*The Supply of Inventors and Inventions, pg. 143*Does the Market Direct the Relative Factor-Saving Effects of Technological Progress?, pg. 171*Changes in Industry and in the State of Knowledge as Determinants of Industrial Invention, pg. 195*The Changing Direction of Research and Development Employment Among Firms, pg. 233*Locational Differences in Inventive Effort and Their Determinants, pg. 253*The Future of Industrial Research and Development, pg. 273*Inventions in the Postwar American Aluminum Industry, pg. 279*Invention and Innovation in the Petroleum Refining Industry, pg. 299*The Origins of the Basic Inventions Underlying Du Pont's Major Product and Process Innovations, 1920 to 1950, pg. 323*Intellect and Motive in Scientific Inventors: Implications for Supply, pg. 361*Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within the Decentralized Firm, pg. 385*Organization and Research and Development Decision Making Within a Government Department, pg. 395*Some Society-Wide Research and Development Institutions, pg. 409*Scientific Discovery and the Rate of Invention, pg. 441*Predictability of the Costs, Time, and Success of Development, pg. 461*The Decision Making Problem in Development, pg. 477*Strategy and Organization in a System Development Project, pg. 509*The Link Between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor, pg. 549*Inventive Activity: Government Controls and the Legal Environment, pg. 587*Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention, pg. 609*Subject index, pg. 627*Author index, pg. 632