PREFACE

I ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE

1 Introduction

Ashish Arora

Ralph Landau

Nathan Rosenberg

II COUNTRY OVERVIEWS

2 On the Making of Competitive Advantage: The Development of the Chemical Industries of Britain and Germany Since 1850

Johann Peter Murmann

Ralph Landau

3 Chemicals: A U.S. Success Story

Ashish Arora

Nathan Rosenberg

4 The Japanese Puzzle

Takashi Hikino

Tsutomo Harada

Yoshio Tokuhisa

James Yoshida

III INNOVATION AT THE HEART OF THE INDUSTRY

5 The Process of Innovation in the Chemical Industry

Ralph Landau

6 The Impact of the Legal System on Innovation

Tom Campbell

Ralph Landau

7 Technological Change in Chemicals: The Role of University-Industry Relations

Nathan Rosenberg

IV SURVEYING THE LEVELS OF THE MATRIX

8 The Industry Evolves Within a Political, Social, and Public Policy Context: A Brief Look at Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States

Micheline Horstmeyer

9 Monetary, Fiscal, and Trade Policies in the Development of the Chemical Industry

Barry Eichengreen

10 Finance and the Chemical Industry

Marco Da Rin

11 Structure and Performance of the Chemical Industry under Regulation

Kian Esteghamat

12 Evolution of Industry Structure in the Chemical Industry

Ashish Arora

Alfonso Gambardella

13 The Evolution of Corporate Capability and Corporate Strategy and Structure Within the World's Largest Chemical Firms: The Twentieth Century in Perspective

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

Takashi Hikino

David Mowery

V THE MODERN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

14 Connecting Performance and Competitiveness with Finance: A Study of the Chemical Industry

Albert Richards

VI INSIGHTS FROM THIS STUDY

15 Conclusions

Ashish Arora

Ralph Landau

Nathan Rosenberg

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX