Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present
By: edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff ; with a foreword by William Janeway.
Contributors: Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9780262122894
Subjects: High technology industries -- United States -- Finance -- History; Technological innovations -- United States -- Finance -- History
Notes: "This book is given by William S. Patton in honor of Jones Patton"--Bookplate.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the organization and finance of innovation in American history / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff; title: Financing invention during the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, Kenneth L. Sokoloff; title: The organizing and financing of innovative companies in the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry / Steven Klepper; title: Why did finance capitalism and the Second Industrial Revolution arise in the 1890s? / Larry Neal, Lance E. Davis; title: Funding new industries : a historical perspective on the financing role of the U.S. stock market in the twentieth century / Mary A. O'Sullivan; title: Stock market swings and the value of innovation, 1908-1929 / Tom Nicholas; title: Financing fiber : Corning's invasion of the telecommunications market / Margaret B. W. Graham; title: The federal role in financing major innovations : information technology during the postwar period / Kira R. Fabrizio, David C. Mowery; title: Learning the hard way : IBM and the sources of innovation in early computing / Steven W. Usselman; title: Trading knowledge : an exploration of patent protection and other determinants of market transactions in technology and R&D / Ashish Arora, Marco Ceccagnoli, Wesley M. Cohen; title: The governance of new firms : a functional perspective / Josh Lerner; title: Real effects of knowledge capital on going public and market valuation / Michael R. Darby, Lynne G. Zucker.