Irwin Feller
Biographic Data
| ID | 1468613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irwin Feller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Feller |
| SIGNATURE | FELLER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7640-2159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Performance Measurement and the Governance of American Academic Science
Science indicators as reliable evidence
Performance Measurement Redux
Recent developments in the United States in the use of performance measurement in science policy and higher education are used to comment further on the Perrin-Bernstein-Winstondebate about the effective use and misuse of performance measurement. Particular attention is given to the influence of political/organizational factors and the production processes of agencies on how performance measures are constructed and used. The analysis points to fu…
Performance Measurement Redux
The Structure of and Prospects for Policy Research as Suggested by Journal Citation Analysis
The Dispersion of Academic Research in the 1980s
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoger GeigerRoger Geiger is professor of education and Irwin Feller is director of the Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration and professor of economics at The Pennsylvania State University.Irwin FellerRoger Geiger is professor of education and Irwin Feller is director of the Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration and professor of economics at The Pennsylvania State University
Policy Analysis and Economics: Developments, Tensions, and Prospects
Contributing Authors.- Preface.- 1 Economists as Policy Analysts: Historical Overview.- 2 Continuing Controversies in Policy Analysis.- 3 Beyond Efficiency: Economics and Distributional Analysis.- 4 Beyond Self-Interest.- 5 Economic Theories of Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Implications for Policy Analysis.- 6 The New Institutional Economics: Implications for Policy Analysis.- 7 Macroeconomics and Macroeconomists as Instruments of Policy.- 8…
What Agricultural Extension Has to Offer as a Model for Manufacturing Modernization
American State Governments as Models for National Science Policy
In the 1980s state governments adopted an entrepreneurial stance and established an extensive array of programs targeted at encouraging university industry research collaboration, the commercial development of new technologies, the start-up of new firms, and the technological modernization of existing firms. Although these state programs are frequently presented as laboratories of democracy, their relevance to national science and technology poli…
The Politics of Industrial Recruitment: Japanese Automobile Investment and Economic Development in the American States
Preface State Industrial Recruitment and Japanese Automobile Investment Industrial Policies in the American States: Historical and Comparative Perspectives State Incentive Packages and the Industrial Location Decision Constitutional Dimensions of State Industrial Recruitment Mid-American State Perspectives Flat Rock, Michigan, Trades a Ford for a Mazda: State Policy and the Evaluation of Plant Location Incentives Economic Development and Diamond-…
Technological Innovation
Universities and State Governments
European Industrial Policy
Technology Transfer, Public Policy, and the Cooperative Extension Service-OMB Imbroglio
The Cooperative Extension Service, although widely cited as an exemplary technology transfer system for its documented contributions to increases in agricultural productivity, is confronting a number of challenges. Recent presidential budgets propose a narrowing of federal responsibilities for Extension to programs related to the transfer of agricultural technology. At the same time, the relevance of its traditional organizational structure to th…
The Economics of Technological Change Filtered through a Social Knowledge System Framework
The social knowledge system (Holzner et al., this volume) offers perspectives not found in most economic approaches to science and technology. Although little of the content of the social knowledge system is found in mainstream neoclassical microeconomics, the social knowledge system has closer intellectual ties to the emerging economics of institutional innovation, including the growing emphasis on university-industry-government partnerships in …
R&D, Patents, and Productivity
Political and Administrative Aspects of State High Technology Programs
The euphoria associated with bold new ventures by the states to initiate high technology development programs can obscure many of the political and economic realities that condition and constrain them. This article introduces and explores the implications of a number of hypotheses about these relationships. Current state high technology development programs are placed within historical context by comparing current initiatives with the science/res…
Innovation Processes: A Comparison in Public Schools and Other Public Sector Organizations
Three Coigns on Diffusion Research
Scientific and Technological Information in State Legislatures
The Adoption of Technological Innovations By Municipal Governments
Data on the adoption of 43 technological innovations in four service delivery fields (fire fighting, solid waste collection and disposal, traffic control, and air polution control) were obtained from nationally representative samples of municipal governments. Principal findings are that the adoption path for many technologies corresponds to traditional S-shaped diffusion curves, the rate and extent of adoption varies within and across functional …
Diffusion milieus as a focus of research on innovation in the public sector
Leadership and Interaction Patterns in the Diffusion of Innovations Among the American States
T f HIS PAPER uses the findings from a recently completed study1 of the diffusion of technological innovations in state highway and air pollution control agencies to assess two principal issues in current treatments of the diffusion of innovations among the states: (1) Is innovativeness a general timeless phenomenon? Or is it specific to a given time period and function? (2) Is interaction, i.e., adopter-nonadopter contact, a meaningful explanato…
Technology Diffusion: Federal Programs and Procedures
Interaction between Agriculture and Industry: Case Studies of Farm Mechanisation and Industrialisation in Sweden and the United States, 1830-1930
Leadership and Interaction Patterns in the Diffusion of Innovations Among the American States
T f HIS PAPER uses the findings from a recently completed study1 of the diffusion of technological innovations in state highway and air pollution control agencies to assess two principal issues in current treatments of the diffusion of innovations among the states: (1) Is innovativeness a general timeless phenomenon? Or is it specific to a given time period and function? (2) Is interaction, i.e., adopter-nonadopter contact, a meaningful explanato…
Performance Measurement Redux
Recent developments in the United States in the use of performance measurement in science policy and higher education are used to comment further on the Perrin-Bernstein-Winstondebate about the effective use and misuse of performance measurement. Particular attention is given to the influence of political/organizational factors and the production processes of agencies on how performance measures are constructed and used. The analysis points to fu…
Performance Measurement Redux
American State Governments as Models for National Science Policy
In the 1980s state governments adopted an entrepreneurial stance and established an extensive array of programs targeted at encouraging university industry research collaboration, the commercial development of new technologies, the start-up of new firms, and the technological modernization of existing firms. Although these state programs are frequently presented as laboratories of democracy, their relevance to national science and technology poli…
The urban location of United States invention, 1860–1910
Diffusion milieus as a focus of research on innovation in the public sector
The Dispersion of Academic Research in the 1980s
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoger GeigerRoger Geiger is professor of education and Irwin Feller is director of the Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration and professor of economics at The Pennsylvania State University.Irwin FellerRoger Geiger is professor of education and Irwin Feller is director of the Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration and professor of economics at The Pennsylvania State University
Scientific and Technological Information in State Legislatures
Political and Administrative Aspects of State High Technology Programs
The euphoria associated with bold new ventures by the states to initiate high technology development programs can obscure many of the political and economic realities that condition and constrain them. This article introduces and explores the implications of a number of hypotheses about these relationships. Current state high technology development programs are placed within historical context by comparing current initiatives with the science/res…
Determinants of the Composition of Urban Inventions
A relationship between urbanization and inventive activity has been sounded in several places. This theme has received formal analytical and empirical expression in the works of Pred [5], Feller [1], Higgs [3], and Thompson [13]. Pred and Feller have presented evidence demonstrating that inventive activity was disproportionately concentrated in America's most populous and industrialized cities in the period 1860 to 1910. Also, Higgs has shown tha…
Performance Measurement and the Governance of American Academic Science
Technology Transfer, Public Policy, and the Cooperative Extension Service-OMB Imbroglio
The Cooperative Extension Service, although widely cited as an exemplary technology transfer system for its documented contributions to increases in agricultural productivity, is confronting a number of challenges. Recent presidential budgets propose a narrowing of federal responsibilities for Extension to programs related to the transfer of agricultural technology. At the same time, the relevance of its traditional organizational structure to th…
Three Coigns on Diffusion Research
The Diffusion and Location of Technological Change in the American Cotton-Textile Industry, 1890-1970
A recurrent theme in accounts of the economic competition between nations or regions is the technological ascendancy of developing economies and the obsolescence or laggardness of mature economies. This thesis (that economic units which first experience industrialization subsequently suffer a penalty because they are unable, for a host of economic, technological, and institutional reasons, to keep pace with changes in technology) appears frequent…
The Draper Loom in New England Textiles, 1894–1914: A Study of Diffusion of an Innovation
The power loom, which had almost completely replaced the hand loom in America by 1860, remained the center of continuous technical development until about 1880. The main effects of the improvements were to increase the speed at which the looms could be operated and to decrease the amount of attention a weaver had to devote to a single loom. Estimates of plain looms tended by one weaver range from four to twelve; six is the most frequently cited f…
Inventive Activity in Agriculture, 1837–1890
Recent studies into technological change in the American economy have stressed the importance of economic conditions that operate through the market mechanism on both the direction of the inventive activity which has generally provided the basis for this change and on the rate at which newly developed techniques are commercially adopted. Schmookler has argued the former point persuasively in several articles, while North, for the latter, has asse…
The Structure of and Prospects for Policy Research as Suggested by Journal Citation Analysis
Innovation Processes: A Comparison in Public Schools and Other Public Sector Organizations
Inventive Activity in Agriculture, 1837–1890
Recent studies into technological change in the American economy have stressed the importance of economic conditions that operate through the market mechanism on both the direction of the inventive activity which has generally provided the basis for this change and on the rate at which newly developed techniques are commercially adopted. Schmookler has argued the former point persuasively in several articles, while North, for the latter, has asse…
The Draper Loom in New England Textiles, 1894–1914: A Study of Diffusion of an Innovation
The power loom, which had almost completely replaced the hand loom in America by 1860, remained the center of continuous technical development until about 1880. The main effects of the improvements were to increase the speed at which the looms could be operated and to decrease the amount of attention a weaver had to devote to a single loom. Estimates of plain looms tended by one weaver range from four to twelve; six is the most frequently cited f…
The Draper Loom in New England Textiles: A Reply
Professor Sandberg in a very helpful comment has accepted the main conclusions of my paper on die economic rationality of New England mill owners with respect to the adoption of the Draper loom but has raised certain questions as to my handling of some of the data used to reach this conclusion and of the very representativeness of the data themselves
The urban location of United States invention, 1860–1910
Determinants of the Composition of Urban Inventions
A relationship between urbanization and inventive activity has been sounded in several places. This theme has received formal analytical and empirical expression in the works of Pred [5], Feller [1], Higgs [3], and Thompson [13]. Pred and Feller have presented evidence demonstrating that inventive activity was disproportionately concentrated in America's most populous and industrialized cities in the period 1860 to 1910. Also, Higgs has shown tha…
The Diffusion and Location of Technological Change in the American Cotton-Textile Industry, 1890-1970
A recurrent theme in accounts of the economic competition between nations or regions is the technological ascendancy of developing economies and the obsolescence or laggardness of mature economies. This thesis (that economic units which first experience industrialization subsequently suffer a penalty because they are unable, for a host of economic, technological, and institutional reasons, to keep pace with changes in technology) appears frequent…
Issues in the Design of Federal Programs to Improve the Policy Management Capabilities of State Legislatures
the legislature must participate vigorously in policy making. It cannot merely ratify proposals-whether an executive budget, departmental request, or member's bill....It should be able to change, modify, or reject what is presented; and it must be able to offer alternatives and fill in the gaps left by an administration's program. ...the legislature must review and evaluate the conduct of administration and the effects of state programs. It canno…
Technology Diffusion: Federal Programs and Procedures
Interaction between Agriculture and Industry: Case Studies of Farm Mechanisation and Industrialisation in Sweden and the United States, 1830-1930
Diffusion milieus as a focus of research on innovation in the public sector
Leadership and Interaction Patterns in the Diffusion of Innovations Among the American States
T f HIS PAPER uses the findings from a recently completed study1 of the diffusion of technological innovations in state highway and air pollution control agencies to assess two principal issues in current treatments of the diffusion of innovations among the states: (1) Is innovativeness a general timeless phenomenon? Or is it specific to a given time period and function? (2) Is interaction, i.e., adopter-nonadopter contact, a meaningful explanato…
The Adoption of Technological Innovations By Municipal Governments
Data on the adoption of 43 technological innovations in four service delivery fields (fire fighting, solid waste collection and disposal, traffic control, and air polution control) were obtained from nationally representative samples of municipal governments. Principal findings are that the adoption path for many technologies corresponds to traditional S-shaped diffusion curves, the rate and extent of adoption varies within and across functional …
Three Coigns on Diffusion Research
Scientific and Technological Information in State Legislatures
Innovation Processes: A Comparison in Public Schools and Other Public Sector Organizations
Political and Administrative Aspects of State High Technology Programs
The euphoria associated with bold new ventures by the states to initiate high technology development programs can obscure many of the political and economic realities that condition and constrain them. This article introduces and explores the implications of a number of hypotheses about these relationships. Current state high technology development programs are placed within historical context by comparing current initiatives with the science/res…
European Industrial Policy
Technology Transfer, Public Policy, and the Cooperative Extension Service-OMB Imbroglio
The Cooperative Extension Service, although widely cited as an exemplary technology transfer system for its documented contributions to increases in agricultural productivity, is confronting a number of challenges. Recent presidential budgets propose a narrowing of federal responsibilities for Extension to programs related to the transfer of agricultural technology. At the same time, the relevance of its traditional organizational structure to th…
The Economics of Technological Change Filtered through a Social Knowledge System Framework
The social knowledge system (Holzner et al., this volume) offers perspectives not found in most economic approaches to science and technology. Although little of the content of the social knowledge system is found in mainstream neoclassical microeconomics, the social knowledge system has closer intellectual ties to the emerging economics of institutional innovation, including the growing emphasis on university-industry-government partnerships in …
R&D, Patents, and Productivity
Universities and State Governments
Technological Innovation
The Politics of Industrial Recruitment: Japanese Automobile Investment and Economic Development in the American States
Preface State Industrial Recruitment and Japanese Automobile Investment Industrial Policies in the American States: Historical and Comparative Perspectives State Incentive Packages and the Industrial Location Decision Constitutional Dimensions of State Industrial Recruitment Mid-American State Perspectives Flat Rock, Michigan, Trades a Ford for a Mazda: State Policy and the Evaluation of Plant Location Incentives Economic Development and Diamond-…
American State Governments as Models for National Science Policy
In the 1980s state governments adopted an entrepreneurial stance and established an extensive array of programs targeted at encouraging university industry research collaboration, the commercial development of new technologies, the start-up of new firms, and the technological modernization of existing firms. Although these state programs are frequently presented as laboratories of democracy, their relevance to national science and technology poli…
Policy Analysis and Economics: Developments, Tensions, and Prospects
Contributing Authors.- Preface.- 1 Economists as Policy Analysts: Historical Overview.- 2 Continuing Controversies in Policy Analysis.- 3 Beyond Efficiency: Economics and Distributional Analysis.- 4 Beyond Self-Interest.- 5 Economic Theories of Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Implications for Policy Analysis.- 6 The New Institutional Economics: Implications for Policy Analysis.- 7 Macroeconomics and Macroeconomists as Instruments of Policy.- 8…
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