Post-Innovation Performance: Technological Development and Competition

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Wealth from Knowledge Revisited....Pages 9-30
Continuity and Competition in Technological Development....Pages 31-48
Empirical Results....Pages 49-69
Diffusion, Selection and Inducement in the Evolution of a Technological Regime....Pages 70-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Automotive Products: Automatic Transmission Systems....Pages 97-105
Bison Concrete: Industrialised Building....Pages 105-112
BICC: Continuously Transposed Cable....Pages 113-116
Cambridge Instruments: (A) Stereoscan Electron Microscope (B) Image-Analysing Computer....Pages 117-126
Davy Mckee (Sheffield): Automatic Control of Steel Strip Thickness....Pages 126-130
Flour Milling and Baking Research Association and Tweedy of Burnley: Chorleywood Bread Process....Pages 130-136
Ferranti: Electronic Summation Metering....Pages 136-140
Ferranti: Light-Weight Inertial Platforms....Pages 140-145
Ferranti: Monolithic Microcircuits....Pages 146-156
Ferranti: Numerical Control Equipment....Pages 156-164
Freeman Fox & Partners: Severn Bridge Design....Pages 164-170
GEC Installation Equipment: Fuses for Semiconductor Devices....Pages 170-176
GEC Telecommunications: Semiconductored Radio Equipment....Pages 176-180
H. S. Marsh and Ethicon: Sterilisation and Irradiation....Pages 180-187
Imperial Chemical Industries: ‘Procion’ Reactive Dyes....Pages 187-194
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
J & S-Stork Pumps: Sealed Motor Pump Units and Turbine Alternator Units....Pages 194-198
Kelvin Hughes: Radar Navigation Aid....Pages 198-205
Lambeg Industrial Research Association and McCleery & L’Amie: The ATOZ Process....Pages 206-210
Lucas Aerospace: Brushless Generators for Aircraft....Pages 210-219
The Lucas Electrical Company: High-Voltage Transistors....Pages 219-227
Lytag: Light-Weight Aggregate from Pulverised Fuel Ash....Pages 227-232
The Marconi Company: The Mark VII Colour Television Camera....Pages 233-239
The Martin-Baker Aircraft Company: Aircraft Ejection Seats....Pages 240-248
Mirrlees Blackstone: Large Diesel Engines of Medium Speed....Pages 248-254
Oxford Instruments: High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures....Pages 255-260
Plasticisers: Synthetic Material for Cordage....Pages 260-265
Renold Power Transmission (Holroyd Machine Tools & Rotors): Rotor Milling Machines....Pages 265-269
Shorts: Seacat Guided Weapon System....Pages 269-274
The 600 Group: New Methods of Lathe Manufacturing....Pages 274-279
Smiths Industries: Aircraft Automatic Landing Equipment....Pages 279-284
Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd: Gas-Turbine-Powered Fast Patrol Boats....Pages 284-292
Beecham Group: New Antibiotics....Pages 292-294
Bonas Machine Company: Shuttleless Looms....Pages 294-295
Sanders & Forster: Structural Steel Work....Pages 295-296
Thorium: Rare Earth Separation....Pages 296-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-301