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Content:

Introduction and overview / Benn Steil, David G. Victor, and Richard R. Nelson -- Innovation in an historical perspective: tales of technology and evolution / Joel Mokyr -- The United States / Robert J. Gordon -- Japan / Adam S. Posen -- Germany / Horst Siebert and Michael Stolpe -- France / Patrick A. Messerlin -- The United Kingdom / Stephen Nickell and John Van Reenen -- The Nordic countries / Matti Virén and Markku Malkamaki -- The Internet / David C. Mowery and Timothy Simcoe -- Computers and semiconductors / Richard N. Langlois -- Banking and financial intermediation / Charles W. Calomiris -- Securities trading / Ian Domowitz and Benn Steil -- Venture capital / Josh Lerner -- Pharmaceutical biotechnology / Gary P. Pisano -- Agricultural biotechnology / Robert E. Evenson -- Electric power / David G. Victor -- Automobiles / Charles H. Fine and Daniel M.G. Raff.