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• Shipbuilding
• Technological innovations

• R&D in the Maritime Industry: A Supplement to An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (OTA-BP-O-35; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ship and Offshore Structure Design in Climate Change Perspective (c2013), by Elzbieta Maria Bitner-Gregersen, Lars Ingolf Eide, Torfinn Hørte, and Rolf Skjong (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)
• An Outline of Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by Theodore D. Wilson, contrib. by Edward J. Reed and Titus Evans Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building: The Fundamental Principles and Practical Methods Described in Detail, Especially Written for Carpenters and Other Woodworkers Who Desire to Engage in Boat or Ship Building, and as a Text-Book for Schools (second edition revised; Chicago: F. J. Drake, c1919), by Richard M. Van Gaasbeek (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Marine Architecture: Containing the Theory and Practice of Shipbuilding (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, 1830), by Peter Hedderwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder (New York: Penguin books, c1944), by Augusta Homes Clawson, illust. by Boris Givotovsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical Mathematics for Shipfitters and Other Shipyard Workers (New York and Chicago: Pitman Pub. Corp., c1941), by Louis Quentin Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Naval Architecture and Ship-Building: or, An Exposition of the Elementary Principles Involved in the Science and Practice of Naval Construction, Compiled From Various Standard Authorities (second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1869), by Richard W. Meade (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Autobiography of Phineas Pett (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1918), by Phineas Pett, ed. by W. G. Perrin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sixty Years of Shipbuilding: Paper Presented at October 5, 1956 Meeting, Great Lakes Section, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (ca. 1956), by Dwight True, ed. by Harry Benford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sea and its Story, From Viking Ship to Submarine (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), ed. by Frank H. Shaw and Ernest H. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Merchant Sail (6 volumes; Center Lovell, ME: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, 1945-1955), by William Armstrong Fairburn, ed. by Ethel M. Ritchie
  • Volumes 1-5: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org

• Yukti-Kalpataru (in Hindi, with English foreword; Kolkata: Abinash Chandra Mandal, ca. 1917), by King of Malwa Bhojarāja, ed. by Iśvaracandra Śāstrī, contrib. by Narendra Nath Law
  • PDF files in India
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Clearing Weather (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1928), by Cornelia Meigs, illust. by Frank Dobias
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life of a Ship From the Launch to the Wreck, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Harry's Garden (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1880) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Sailing Days on the Penobscot: The River and Bay As They Were in the Old Days (with a record of vessels built there; publication #24; Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1932), by George S. Wasson and Lincoln Colcord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sailing Days on the Penobscot: The River and Bay As They Were in the Old Days (with a record of vessels built there; publication #24; Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1932), by George S. Wasson and Lincoln Colcord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marine Engineering (partial serial archives)

• Shipbuilding Technology and Education (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Shipbuilding Technology and Education (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Bridge to France (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1927), by Edward N. Hurley (illustrated HTML at gwpda.org)
• Rules for the Construction and Classification of Wood Ships (New York: American Bureau of Shipping, 1921), by American Bureau of Shipping (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #22; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Cerinda W. Evans
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Construct-a-Boat (c2000), by Technical Education Research Centers and William Baroway (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)

• Iron Hulls for Western River Steamboats (American Society of Civil Engineers Transactions #15, 1873), by Theodore F. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evaluation of the Usability and Benefits of Twist Wire GMAW and FACW Narrow Gap Welding (Washington: US Dept. of Transportation Marine Administration, 1988), by Derek Mortvedt, contrib. by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2014), ed. by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet M Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• A Passion for Ideas: How Innovators Create the New and Shape Our World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2002), ed. by Heinrich von Pierer and Bolko von Oetinger (PDF at Purdue)
• Product Liability and Innovation: Managing Risk in an Uncertain Environment (1994), ed. by Janet R. Hunziker and Trevor O. Jones (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by William Bonvillian, Robert E. Van Atta, and Patrick Windham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age (Madrid: BBVA, c2014), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Philip Evans, Kenneth Cukier, Geoffrey A. Moore, Haim Mendelson, George S. Day, Esteban García-Canal, Mauro F. Guillén, Joan E. Ricart i Costa, Christopher Warhurst, Sally Wright, Celia de Anca, Salvador Aragón, Alison Maitland, Stewart D. Friedman, Peter Thomson, Herzog & de Meuron, BBVA New Headquarters Team, William M. Klepper, John P. Kotter, Henry William Chesbrough, and Carol A. Adams (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Against Intellectual Monopoly (electronic edition, 2008), by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (PDF with commentary at dklevine.com)
• How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets, by Andy Kessler (PDF at andykessler.com)
• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Globalization: Past, Present, Future (Oakland: University of California Press, c2023), ed. by Manfred B. Steger, Roland Benedikter, Harald Pechlaner, and Ingrid Kofler (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Tomorrow's World: The Australian Initiative (HTML in Australia)

• The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by William Bonvillian, Robert E. Van Atta, and Patrick Windham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Science, Technology, and Innovation in Chile, by James Mullin, Robert M. Adam, Janet E. Halliwell, and Larry P. Milligan (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion: Making Technologies Work for the Poor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Nir Kshetri (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Free Innovation (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Eric von Hippel (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014), by Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia, Sarah Chung, Juan Jimenez, Alexander Simoes, and Muhammed A. Yildirim (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2009), by Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan David Aronson, contrib. by Donald Abelson (PDF with commentary at globalinfoandtelecom.org)
• Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2005), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• The Sources of Innovation (New York: Oxford University Press, c1988), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• Mastering the Global Transition on Our Way to Society 3.0 (2014), by Ronald van den Hoff (PDF with commentary at society30.com)
• Innovation: Perspectives for the 21st Century (Madrid: BBVA, c2010), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Alex Pentland, Sander Ernst van der Leeuw, Nathan Rosenberg, Hiroyuki Itami, Alfonso Gambardella, Francisco Louçã, David C. Mowery, Edward H. Lorenz, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Alice Lam, Eric von Hippel, Frank Moss, Curtis Ray Carlson, Harry West, Pascal Sobol, Joaquim Vila, Manuel Mira Godinho, Ian Miles, Robert E. Litan, Xavier Vives, Edward S. Rubin, Takanori Shibata, Hugh Herr, Ernesto Martinez-Villalpando, Carlo Ratti, Nashid Nabian, and Tod Machover (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• The Age of Perplexity: Rethinking the World We Knew (Madrid: BBVA, c2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Jannis Kallinikos, Robin Mansell, Jan-Werner Müller, José Luis Pardo, Diana Marie Owen, Evgeny Morozov, Simon Springer, Marysia Zalewski, John Andrews, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Ian Storey, Miguel Angel Centeno, Andrés Lajous, Douglas R. Nelson, Zia Qureshi, Adam Saunders, Andrew Gamble, Richard J. White, Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek, Adriana Conconi, and Mariana Viollaz (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (with related documents; 2011), by Ian Hargreaves (PDF with commentary in the UK)

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