Includes index.

Contents: Microeconomics of invention, innovation, and diffusion -- Preliminary concepts and relations -- Inventive activity: Distinct characteristics of nature and size -- Major time trends and cross-sectional tendencies: Stylized facts -- Markets structure, rivalry, and innovation -- Behavioural and evolutionary versus neoclassical theory of technical choice and innovation -- Innovation diffusion: Theory and evidence -- The Behaviour of enterprises and innovation characteristics in centrally managed economies -- Macroeconomics of innovation, technology transfer, and growth -- Innovation biases, factor substitution, and the measurement of technological change: Definitions and theory -- Variation of innovation rates among countries and over time: The first hat-shape relationship -- 'Technological revolution' as an innovation superwave in the world technological frontier area -- Evidence and microeconomics of the international technology transfer -- Macrotheories and evidence of international technology transfer -- Innovation rate and change of economic systems: A Grand scenario.