Technical change as cultural evolution / Richard R. Nelson -- Learning and technological change : the perspective from business history / Alfred D. Chandler Jr. -- Nineteenth-century American patent management as an invisible college of technology / Carolyn C. Cooper -- Thinking about technological change : linear and evolutionary models / John K. Smith -- Economic forms of technological change / Ross Thomson -- A model of the productivity gap : convergence or divergence? / Donald J. Harris -- Innovative learning and institutions in the process of development : on the microfoundation of growth regimes / Francesca Chiaromonte, Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Orsenigo -- The dynamics of innovation and diffusion with competing techniques / Willi Semmler -- Learning and the dynamics of international competitive advantage / William Lazonick -- History and its lessons / William N. Parker.

Transformational growth and learning : developing craft technology into scientific mass production / Edward J. Nell -- Borrowing technology or innovating : an exploration of two paths to industrial development / Alice H. Amsden and Takashi Hikino -- Epilogue : institutions, learning and technological change / Ross Thomson.