Commercial exploitation of science by American industry -- Academic entrepreneurship -- The economic impact of scientific instrumentation developed in academic laboratories -- Economic development and the transfer of technology: some historical perspectives -- A general: purpose technology at work: the Corliss steam engine in the late nineteenth-century United States (with manuel trajtenberg) -- The role of electricity industrial development -- Improvement upon improvement: long after innovation -- Innovation and the chain-link model (with Stephen J. Kline) -- Endogenous forces in twentieth-century America -- Why do firms do basic research (with their own money)? -- From the scalpel to the scope: endoscopic innovations in gastroenterology, gynecology, and surgery (with Annetine C. Gelijns) -- Capturing the unexpected benefits of medical innovation: an Anglo-American perspective -- Chemical engineering as a general purpose technology -- Technological change in chemicals: the role of university-industry relations -- Economic experiments -- Aeronautical engineering -- Schumpeter and history

1. Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- United States
2. Science -- Periodicals
3. Technology -- Periodicals