Francois Caron & Paul Erker 
Innovations in the European Economy between the Wars [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Contents — List of Contributors — List of Tables — List of Figures — Preface — Introduction — ?. The Extension of Technical Systems — Introduction — Innovation and Radio Industry in Europe during the Interwar Period — From Small Insulated Plants to Regional Networks: The Path of Growth of the Italian Electrical Industry from its Beginning to the 1930s — The German Long Distance Telephone Network as a Large Technical System, 1919–1939, and its Spin-offs for the Integration of Europe — II. The Transfer of Technology and its Diffusion — Introduction — Spin-off from British and German Aircraft Technology after the Great War — Technology and Chocolate: Research in the British Food Industry before 1940 — III. The Structure of Enterprise and Innovation — Introduction — Innovation and the Structure of the IG Farben — Strategies of Growth and Innovation in the Decentralized Du Pont Company, 1921–1950 — Strategy, Technological Capability, and Innovation: German Enterprises in Comparative Perspective — IV. The Formation and Development of Industrial Research and Technology — Introduction — The Choice between Competition and Cooperation: Research and Development in the Electrical Industry in Germany and the Netherlands, 1920–1936 — Science and Industry. Modernisation Strategies in Norway 1900–1940 — The Evolution of European Industrial Technology in the Interwar Period — Summary — Index