Keith Pavitt

The objectives of technology policy

The objectives of technology policy Get access Keith Pavitt Keith Pavitt Professor Deputy Director of the Science Policy Research Unit, Mantell Building, University of Sussex, F...

Innovative Activities and Export Shares: some Comparisons between Industries and Countries

This chapter compares the level, pattern and trend of British innovative activities with those of other countries, and analyses the degree to which national differences in innov...

Key Characteristics of the Large Innovating Firm*

SUMMARY Large innovating firms are a major source of the world's technology, and in the 20th century have shown great resilience in absorbing successive waves of radical innovat...

Technical Innovation and British Economic Performance

Sectoral patterns of technical change: Towards a taxonomy and a theory

The purpose of the paper is to describe and explain sectoral patterns of technical change as revealed by data on about 2000 significant innovations in Britain since 1945. Most t...

R&D, patenting and innovative activities

Characteristics of innovative activities in British industry

Knowledge Specialization, Organizational Coupling, and the Boundaries of the Firm: Why Do Firms Know More than They Make?

This paper uses an analysis of developments in aircraft engine control systems to explore the implications of specialization in knowledge production for the organization and the...