Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Organization and Finance of Innovation in American History -- 1 - Financing Invention during the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio,1870-1920 -- 2 - The Organizing and Financing of Innovative Companies in the Evolution of the U.S.Automobile Industry -- 3 - Why Did Finance Capitalism and the Second Industrial Revolution Arise in the 1890s? -- 4 - Funding New Industries: A Historical Perspective on the Financing Role of the U.S. Stock Market in the Twentieth Century -- 5 - Stock Market Swings and the Value of Innovation, 1908-1929 -- 6 - Financing Fiber: Corning's Invasion of the Telecommunications Market -- 7 - The Federal Role in Financing Major Innovations: Information Technology during the Postwar Period -- 8 - Learning the Hard Way: IBM and the Sources of Innovation in Early Computing -- 9 - Trading Knowledge: An Exploration of Patent Protection and Other Determinants of Market Transactions in Technology and R&amp -- D -- 10 - The Governance of New Firms: A Functional Perspective -- 11 - Real Effects of Knowledge Capital on Going Public and Market Valuation -- 12 - Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.

Leading economists and economic historians offer case studies and theoretical perspectives that fill a longstanding gap in the existing literature on technology-driven industrial development, discussing the interaction of finance and technological innovation in the American economy since the Second Industrial Revolution.

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