CONTENTS

1. Preface
2. Introduction: A Theory of Innovation, Flourishing, and Growth
3. EDMUND PHELPS
4. Overview of the Chapters
5. RAICHO BOJILOV, GYLFI ZOEGA, AND HIAN TECK HOON
6. I.  ESTIMATING INNOVATION—ACROSS TIME AND ACROSS NATIONS
7. 1. Innovation: The Source of Rapid Growth
8. RAICHO BOJILOV
9. 2. Sources of Indigenous Innovation and Channels of Its Transmission across Countries
10. RAICHO BOJILOV
11. 3. Indigenous Innovation during the IT Revolution: We Never Had It So Good?
12. RAICHO BOJILOV
13. II.  THE ROOTS AND BENEFITS OF INNOVATION
14. 4. A Case Study of Iceland’s Successful Innovators
15. GYLFI ZOEGA
16. 5. The Force of Values
17. GYLFI ZOEGA
18. 6. Individual Values, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
19. RAICHO BOJILOV
20. 7. Innovation, Job Satisfaction, and Performance in Western European Countries
21. GYLFI ZOEGA
22. III.  TWO APPLICATIONS OF ROBOTS
23. 8. Growth Effects of Additive and Multiplicative Robots alongside Conventional Machines
24. HIAN TECK HOON
25. 9. Wage Effects of Additive and Multiplicative Robots alongside Factory Buildings and Physical Structures
26. HIAN TECK HOON
27. 10. Additive Robots, Relative Prices, and Indigenous Innovation
28. HIAN TECK HOON
29. Epilogue
30. EDMUND PHELPS
31. Notes
32. Acknowledgments
33. Index