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• Innovation and Commercialization of Emerging Technologies (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Multinationals and the U.S. Technology Base: Final Report of the Multinationals Project (OTA-ITE-612; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Maximizing U.S. Interests in Science and Technology Relations with Japan: Report of the Defense Task Force (1995), by National Research Council Committee on Japan (page images with commentary at NAP)

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• 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)
• 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)

• Maximizing U.S. Interests in Science and Technology Relations with Japan: Report of the Defense Task Force (1995), by National Research Council Committee on Japan (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Middle Path for the Future of Thailand: Technology in Harmony With Culture and Environment (c1990), by Sippanon Ketthat, contrib. by Robert B. Textor (PDF at Stanford)

• The Way Ahead: Meeting Canada's Productivity Challenge (2008), by T. A. Brzustowski (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Technology and Global Industry: Companies and Nations in the World Economy (1987), ed. by Bruce R. Guile and Harvey Brooks (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Swords into Market Shares: Technology, Economics, and Security in the New Russia (2000), by Glenn E. Schweitzer (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa (Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press, c2011), by Calestous Juma (PDF with commentary at belfercenter.org)

• Information and Telecommunication Technologies: The Impact of Their Adoption on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (1996), by Elisabeth Lefebvre and Louis A. Lefebvre (PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Does America Need More Innovators? (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2019), ed. by Matthew H. Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, and Marie Stettler Kleine (PDF files with commentary at at MIT Press)
• Census of State Government Initiatives for High-Technology Industrial Development (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Process of Technological Innovation: Reviewing the Literature (Washington: National Science Foundation, 1983), by National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Science and Technological Innovation, contrib. by Louis G. Tornatzky, J. D. Eveland, Myles Boylan, William Hetzner, Elmima C. Johnson, David B. Roitman, and Janet Schneider
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Government Involvement in the Innovation Process: A Contractor's Report to the Office of Technology Assessment (1978), by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Policy Alternatives
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  • PDF files at Princeton
• Advisory Committee on Industrial Innovation Final Report (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States Advisory Committee on Industrial Innovation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at free-culture.cc)
• Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise: An Advisory Panel Report to the Office of Technology Assessment (1978), by United States Office of Technology Assessment Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise Advisory Panel
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Paying the Bill: Manufacturing and America's Trade Deficit (OTA-ITE-390; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• In Service to the Nation: Air Force Research Institute Strategic Concept for 2018-2023 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2009), by John Albert Shaud (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• A Patent System for the 21st Century (2004), ed. by Stephen A. Merrill, Richard C. Levin, and Mark B. Myers (PDF files and page images at NAP)
• Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy (c2003), ed. by Wesley Marc Cohen and Stephen A. Merrill (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The New American Farmer: Profiles of Agricultural Innovation (second edition; Beltsville, MD: Sustainable Agriculture Network, 2005), ed. by Valerie Berton (HTML and PDF at sare.org)
• A New Technological Era for American Agriculture (OTA-F-474; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
• The Arguments of Agriculture: A Casebook in Contemporary Agricultural Controversy (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1989), by Jan Wojcik (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Impacts of Technology on U.S. Cropland and Rangeland Productivity (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Beneath the Bottom Line: Agricultural Approaches To Reduce Agrichemical Contamination of Groundwater (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Agricultural Policy, Technology Adoption, and Farm Structure (USDA Staff Report AGES880810; 1988), by Lloyd D. Teigen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Census of State Government Initiatives for High-Technology Industrial Development (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy (c2003), ed. by Wesley Marc Cohen and Stephen A. Merrill (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Biology, Medicine, and the Bill of Rights (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The OTA Legacy (full set of OTA reports, 1974-1996), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• OTA Priorities 1979, With Brief Descriptions of Priorities and of Assessments in Progress (OTA-P-81; 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
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  • PDF files at Princeton
• Development of Medical Technology: Opportunities for Assessment (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Advanced Materials by Design (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Upgrading the Space Shuttle, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies, ed. by Marielena Lara and Clifford Goodman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics: Breakthrough Technologies to Meet Future Air and Space Transportation Needs and Goals, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Aeronautical Technologies for the Twenty-First Century, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics: Breakthrough Technologies to Meet Future Air and Space Transportation Needs and Goals, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Space Technology for the New Century, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

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