Sources of industrial leadership : studies of seven industries

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This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computers, semiconductors, and software. In each of these industries, firms located in one or a very few countries became the clear technological and commercial leaders. In a number of cases, the locus of leadership changed, sometimes more than once, over the course of the histories studied. The focus of the book is on the key factors that supported the emergence of national leadership in each industry, and the reasons behind the shifts when they occurred. Special attention is given to the national policies that helped to create or sustain industrial leadership ''This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computers, semiconductors, and software. In each of these industries, firms located in one country or a very few countries became the clear technological and commercial leaders. In a number of cases, the locus of leadership changed, sometimes more than once, over the course of the histories studied. The emphasis of the book is on the key factors that supported the emergence of national leadership in each industry, and the reasons behind the shifts when they occurred.Special attention is given to the national policies that helped to create, or sustain, industrial leadership.''--BOOK JACKET.  Read more... Introduction / David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson -- The evolution of competitive advantage in the worldwide semiconductor industry, 1947-1996 / Richard N. Langlois and W. Edward Steinmueller -- Industrial dynamics and the evolution of firms' and nations' competitive capabilities in the world computer industry / Timothy F. Bresnahan and Franco Malerba -- The computer software industry / David C. Mowery -- Innovation in the machine tool industry: a historical perspective on the dynamics of comparative advantage / Roberto Mazzoleni -- Dynamics of comparative advantage in the chemical industry / Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg -- The pharmaceutical industry and the revolution in molecular biology: interactions among scientific, institutional, and organizational change / Rebecca Henderson, Luigi Orsenigo, and Gary P. Pisano -- Diagnostic devices: an analysis of comparative advantages / Annetine C. Gelijns and Nathan Rosenberg -- Explaining industrial leadership / David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson