Uncaging animal spirits : essays on engineering, entrepreneurship, and economics /
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| Author / Creator: | Landau, Ralph. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994. |
| Description: | xxxiii, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1708631 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: The Endless Career / Robert White
- Discoveries and Developments. 1. Ethylene Oxide by Direct Oxidation (1953). 2. Development of the M-C Process (1968) / Ralph Landau and Alfred Saffer. 3. Boron-Promoted Oxidation of Paraffins and Cycloparaffins (1969) / Ralph Landau, David Brown and J. L. Russell. 4. Epoxidation of Olefins (1967) / Ralph Landau, David Brown, J. L. Russell and J. Kollar
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 5. Making Research Pay (1965) / Ralph Landau and David Brown. 6. Industrial Innovation: Yesterday and Today (1974). 7. Halcon International, Inc. - An Entrepreneurial Company (1978). 8. Corporate Partnering Can Spur Innovation (1987)
- Professional Issues. 9. Chemical Engineering in West Germany (1958). 10. The Chemical Engineer - Today and Tomorrow (1972). 11. From Chemical Engineering to Moral Philosophy (1976). 12. The Chemical Engineering Trilemma (1976). 13. The Chemical Engineer and the CPI: Reading the Future from the Past (1989)
- Technology and Trade in the Global Market. 14. Role of American Engineering Design Companies in the Chemical Process Industry (1962). 15. Technology and Obsolescence in the Petrochemical Industries for Developing Countries (1965). 16. The Chemical Process Industries in International Investment and Trade (1975)
- Technology, Innovation, and the Economy. 17. Financial and Capacity Needs (1974). 18. Innovation for Fun and Profit (1979). 19. Taxes - Their Impact on Innovation Decision-Making (1980). 20. Technology, Economics, and Public Policy (1986). 21. Introduction to The Positive Sum Strategy (1986) / Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenberg. 22. Capital Formation in the United States and Japan (1986) / Ralph Landau and George N. Hatsopoulos. 23. U.S. Economic Growth (1988). 24. Capital Investment: Key to Competitiveness and Growth (1990)
- Lessons from Life. 25. The CEO and the Technologist (1992). 26. Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship (1992). 27. Economic Growth and the Chemical Industry (1993). Papers and Patents of Ralph Landau.