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The article reviews the book "Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights," by Neil M. Kay.

Reviews the book "The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Growth: Papers Commissioned by the Panel on Technology and Employment," edited by Richard M. Cyert and David C. Mowery.

The article reviews the book "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science," by Alan Lightman.

Reviews the book "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science," by Alan Lightman.

The article reviews the book "Arms Control and Technological Innovation," edited by Carlo Schaerf and David Carlton.

The article reviews the book "Technological Innovation and Human Resources," vol.1 " Managing Technological Development: Strategic and Human Resource Issues," edited by Urs E. Gathker and Laune Larwood.

Reviews the book "Innovation in Technology, Industries, and Institutions: Studies in Schumpeterian Perspectives," edited by Yuichi Shionoya and Mark Perlman.

The article reviews the book "The Science and Technology Resources of Japan: A Comparison With the United States".

Reviews the book "New Technologies and the Firm: Innovation and Competition," edited by Peter Swann.

(Nonfiction. 13-18) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This annual series, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, provides a forum for research on the interactions, among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. Discussions cover all types of policy that affect the ability of an economy to achieve scientific and technological progress or that affect the impact of science and technology on economic growth. The books are designed to be of interest to general readers interested in public policy as well as to economists. The issues covered in this year's volume include the impact of patent policy changes on innovation, the consequences of the globalization of the R&D workforce and improvements to the new drug approval process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Social Context of Technological Change: Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 BC: Proceedings of a Conference Held at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 12-14 September 2000," edited by Andrew J. Shortland.

The article reviews the book "New Technology As Organizational Innovation: The Development and Diffusion of Microelectronics," by Johannes M. Pennings and Arend Buitendam.

Reviews the book "Growth Theory and Technical Change: The Selected Essays of Ryuzo Sato," vol. 1, by Ryuzo Sato.

Reviews the book "Technological Change and Employment: Innovation in the German Economy," edited by Ronald Schettkat and Michael Wagner, translated by Andrew Watt.

The article reviews the book "Pulling Together: Productivity, Innovation, and Trade," by the Economic Council of Canada.

Reviews the book "New Concepts in Innovation Output Measurement," edited by Alfred Kleinknecht and Donald Bain.

The article reviews the book "Economic Policy and Technological Performance," edited by Partha Dasgupta and Paul Stoneman.

The article reviews the book "Is New Technology Enough? Making and Remaking U.S. Basic Industries," edited by Donald A. Hicks.

The article reviews the book "Innovation Technology and Canada's Competitiveness," by Kristian Palda.

Reviews the book "Technological Innovation and Multinational Corporations," by John Cantwell.

The article presents a book on industrial organization, technological change and industry studies. "Mergers and Acquisitions: Current Problems in Perspective," edited by Michael Keenan and Lawrence J. White brings together the papers and some of the discussion at a conference organized by the editors at the Salomon Brothers Center for the Study of Financial institutions at New York University. Different sessions were focused on issues in merger theory, social and legal issues, empirical studies of the determinants of mergers; and mergers viewed in the context of the firm's strategic planning. In the first paper, B.C. Stapleton uses option pricing theory to analyze the impact of mergers on debt capacity defined as a supply function, i.e., the maximum debt which can be sold at various promised yields. For any individual firm, debt capacity is shown to increase at a diminishing rate as the promised coupon increases, and for any given coupon rate the obtainable debt declines at an increasing rate as the risk of the underlying cash flow increases. Mergers Increase debt capacity even when cash flows are perfectly correlated because of the nonlinear effects of risk.

The article reviews the book "New Technology at the Outset: Social Forces in the Shaping of Technological Innovations," edited by Meinolf Dierkes and Ute Hoffmann.

The article reviews the book "New Concepts in Innovation Output Measurement," Alfred Kleinknecht and Donald Bain.

The article reviews the book "National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis," edited by Richard R. Nelson.

A description of the course "Skynet Junior Scholars," a free online program designed to teach astronomy to visually impaired students by using technological tools, is presented.

Reviews the book "Industrial Training and Technological Innovation," edited by Howard F. Gospel.

Reviews the book "Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications," edited by Robert W. Crandall and Kenneth Flamm.

Reviews the book "Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change: An Historical Survey," by Joel Mokyr.

Reviews the book "Technological Innovation and Economic Performance," edited by Benn Steil, David G. Victor and Richard R. Nelson.

Reviews the book "Innovation and Firm Performance: Econometric Exploration of Survey Data," edited by Alfred Kleinknecht and Pierre Mohnen.

The article reviews the book "Workshop on stimulating technological change: The FCCC in the context of developing country initiatives at the second session of the Conference of the Parties," edited by Sharmila Barathan.

Reviews the book "Technological Change, Economic Development and Space," edited by Cristoforo S. Bertuglia, Manfred M. Fischer and Giorgio Preto.

The article reviews the book "Teams, Markets, and Systems: Business Innovation and Information Technology," by Claudio U. Ciborra.

Reviews the book 'The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Economic Growth,' edited by Richard M. Cyert and David C. Mowery.