Contents

List of Contributors     v
Acknowledgments     vii

1 Innovation and Technological Change: An Overview
Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch     1

2 Changing Perspectives on the Firm Size Problem
F.M. Scherer     24

3 R&D, Firm Size and Innovative Activity
Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch     39

4 Firm Size, University-Based Research and the Returns to R&D
Albert N. Link and John Rees     60

5 Technical Performance and Firm Size: Analysis of Patents and Publications of US Firms
Alok K. Chakrabarti and Michael R. Halperin     71

6 Formal and Informal R&D and Firm Size: Survey Results from the Netherlands
Alfred Kleinknecht, Tom P. Poot and Jeroen O.N. Reijnen     84

7 A Poisson Model of Patenting and Firm Structure in Germany
Joachim Schwalbach and Klaus F. Zimmermann     109

8 Technological Diffusion, Firm Size and Market Structure
Paul Stoneman     121

9 Research Diversity Induced by Rivalry
John T. Scott     132

10 Firm Size, Growth and Innovation: Some Evidence from West Germany
Felix R. FitzRoy and Kornelius Kraft     152

11 Advertising, Innovation and Market Structure: A Comparison of the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany
J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg and Joachim Wagner     160

12 Firm Size Versus Diversity in the Achievement of Technological Advance
Wesley M. Cohen and Steven Klepper     183

Index     204