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Innovation and the Growth of the American Economy: Lessons for Today

  • October 19, 2008
David Hounshell

Henry Luce Professor of Technology and Social Change


This lecture was the keynote address was given at the “Teaching the History of Innovation” conference, a History Institute for Teachers, held October 18-19, 2008.

Core funding for these programs has been contributed by The Annenberg Foundation. For specific weekends, additional funding has been contributed by FPRI Trustees W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, and John M. Templeton, Jr., and by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Support for our programming on Teaching the History of Innovation is provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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