© Columbia University Press
Limited by Design: R & D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System
September, 1998
Cloth, 384 pages, 108 charts & illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-10982-6
$65.00
/ £45.00
"There are more than 16,000 R&D labs in the U.S. today, including 12,000 in private industry. Yet until this book became available, there existed no systematic examination that fully revealed the remarkable institutional diversity that supported research in this country. In this book, American R&D labs have finally found their Linnaeus." — Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University
"A thorough and detailed description and analysis of an important part of the national innovation system, namely, the U.S. R&D laboratories. What’s more: a new way of looking at these diverse institutions at a time when U.S. competitiveness is important." — Erich Bloch, Distinguished Fellow, Council on Competitiveness