想要系統(tǒng)了解某一領(lǐng)域，閱讀相應(yīng)的手冊是個不錯辦法。Handbook of The Economics of Innovation包含七大部分：

• Introduction and overview
• invention and innovation
• Commercialization of innovation
• Diffusion
• Innovation outcomes
• Measurement of innovation
• Policy towards innvation

Part1: Introduction and overview

Chapter1
Introduction to the Handbook
Chapter2
The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change: 1750–1914
Chapter3
Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes
Chapter4
Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance

Part2: invention and innovation

Chapter6
University Research and Public–Private Interaction
Chapter7
Property Rights and Invention
Chapter8
Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation
Chapter9
Open User Innovation
Chapter10
Learning by Doing
Chapter11
Innovative Conduct in Computing and Internet Markets
Chapter12
Pharmaceutical Innovation
Chapter13
Collective Invention and Inventor Networks

Part3: Commercialization of innovation

Chapter14
The Financing of R&D and Innovation
Chapter15
The Market for Technology
Chapter16
Technological Innovation and the Theory of the Firm: The Role of Enterprise-Level Knowledge, Complementarities, and (Dynamic) Capabilities

Part4: Diffusion

Chapter17
The Diffusion of New Technology
Chapter18
General Purpose Technologies
Chapter19
International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers

Part5: Innovation outcomes

Chapter20
Innovation and Economic Development
Chapter21
Energy, The Environment, and Technological Change
Chapter22
The Economics of Innovation and Technical Change in Agriculture

Part6: Measurement of innovation

Chapter23
Growth Accounting
Chapter24
Measuring the Returns to R&D
Chapter25
Patent Statistics as an Innovation Indicator
Chapter26
Using Innovation Surveys for Econometric Analysis

Part7: Policy towards innvation

Chapter27
Systems of Innovation
Chapter28
Economics of Technology Policy
Chapter29
Military R&D and Innovation