R & D and Productivity

Zvi Griliches is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Productivity and Technical Change program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is past president of the Econometric Society and of the American Economic Association and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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