The Sources of Invention

by John Jewkes, Richard Stillerman, David Sawers

Book Overview

The first edition of The Sources of Invention, published in 1958, has been described as a classic in science policy which has had a very considerable influence on both economists and scientists in Europe and in the United States. The authors set out to study the causes and consequences of industrial innovation--one, if not the main, spring of economic progress. They examined the important inventions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039300502X
• ISBN13: 9780393005028
• Release Date: February 1971
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"