TY - JOUR AU - Mansfield, Edwin AB - Abstract I. Introduction, 290. — II. Size of firm and the profitability of its investment in the innovation, 291. — III. Model and data, 294. — IV. Empirical results, 297. — V. Growth rate, profitability, age of president, liquidity, and profit trend, 302. — VI. Concentration of technical leadership, 305. — VII. Summary and conclusions, 309. * The work on which this report is based was supported financially by the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Office of Economic and Statistical Studies of the National Science Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University. It is part of a broader study of research, technical change, and economic growth that I am conducting. My thanks go to the many people in industry who provided information and to K. Healy, A. Meltzer, J. Muth, and R. Nelson for their helpful comments. This content is only available as a PDF. Copyright, 1963, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College TI - The Speed of Response of Firms to New Techniques JF - The Quarterly Journal of Economics DO - 10.2307/1884404 DA - 1963-05-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-speed-of-response-of-firms-to-new-techniques-C7bBP3J14l SP - 290 EP - 311 VL - 77 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -