Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface / FISCHER, WOLFRAM -- Introduction / CARON, FRANÇOIS -- ¿. The Extension of Technical Systems -- Introduction / TEMIN, PETER -- Innovation and Radio Industry in Europe during the Interwar Period / GRISET, PASCAL -- From Small Insulated Plants to Regional Networks: The Path of Growth of the Italian Electrical Industry from its Beginning to the 1930s / GIANNETTI, RENATO -- The German Long Distance Telephone Network as a Large Technical System, 1919-1939, and its Spin-offs for the Integration of Europe / SCHRÖTER, HARM G. -- II. The Transfer of Technology and its Diffusion -- Introduction / TUNZELMANN, G. NICK VON -- Spin-off from British and German Aircraft Technology after the Great War / BRAUN, HANS-JOACHIM / EDGERTON, DAVID -- Technology and Chocolate: Research in the British Food Industry before 1940 / HORROCKS, SALLY -- III. The Structure of Enterprise and Innovation -- Introduction / CARON, FRANÇOIS -- Innovation and the Structure of the IG Farben / PLUMPE, GOTTFRIED -- Strategies of Growth and Innovation in the Decentralized Du Pont Company, 1921-1950 / HOUNSHELL, DAVID A. -- Strategy, Technological Capability, and Innovation: German Enterprises in Comparative Perspective / DORNSEIFER, BERND -- IV. The Formation and Development of Industrial Research and Technology -- Introduction / ROSENBERG, NATHAN -- The Choice between Competition and Cooperation: Research and Development in the Electrical Industry in Germany and the Netherlands, 1920-1936 / ERKER, PAUL -- Science and Industry. Modernisation Strategies in Norway 1900-1940 / SEJERSTED, FRANCIS -- The Evolution of European Industrial Technology in the Interwar Period / CANTWELL, JOHN -- Summary / ERKER, PAUL -- Index