The main purpose of this study is to analyse the role of foreign investment in the search for oil in the Philippines. In this respect, it analyses the outlook, views, conceptions and preconceptions of the Philippine Government, the Philippine Congress, private enterprise and the public toward...

The field report ooks at the economic developments and regional industrial growth with the discovery of oil. It also discusses the different implications on regional political relations as a result of the quantity and geographical territories in which the oil was found. More specifically, the...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- The setting of the problem -- Patent statistics -- The role of intellectual stimuli -- The use of important inventions as a cause of further inventions -- Productivity advance: A Case of supply and demand? -- The amount of invention is governed by the extent...