Positive Feedback and Research Productivity in Science: Reopening Another Black Box

Comments and suggestions made by members of the Science, Technology and Economics Workshop at Stanford University (October 1992), the able research assistance of Phillip Lim, and the support of the Science and Society Program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, all are gratefully acknowledged. This revision of a paper originally presented to the conference on Innovation and Technological Change in Mastrand, Sweden, in August 1992, was undertaken during the author's tenure of a Visiting Fellowing at All Souls College, Oxford.

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