Technological Innovation and Economic Performance

Technological Innovation and Economic Performance

Author: Benn Steil

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2002-02-03

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780691090917

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Commissioned and brought tohgether for the research project by the world-renowned Council on Foreign Relations, the authors have produced an important compendia in applied economics.


Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth

Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth

Author: David C. Mowery

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-07-26

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780521389365

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Technology's contribution to economic growth and competitiveness has been the subject of vigorous debate in recent years. This book demonstrates the importance of a historical perspective in understanding the role of technological innovation in the economy. The authors examine key episodes and institutions in the development of the U.S. research system and in the development of the research systems of other industrial economies. They argue that the large potential contributions of economics to the understanding of technology and economic growth have been constrained by the narrow theoretical framework employed within neoclassical economies. A richer framework, they believe, will support a more fruitful dialogue among economists, policymakers, and managers on the organization of public and private institutions for innovation. David Mowery is Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at the School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley. Nathan S. Rosenberg is Fairleigh Dickinson Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is the author of Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics (CUP, 1983).


Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Author: Wim Naudé

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0230295150

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Leading international scholars provide a timely reconsideration of how and why entrepreneurship matters for economic development, particularly in emerging and developing economies. The book critically dissects the evolving relationship between entrepreneurs and the state.


Growth in a Time of Change

Growth in a Time of Change

Author: Hyeon-Wook Kim

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0815737769

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Growth in a Time of Change: Global and Country Perspectives on a New Agenda is the first of a two-book research project that addresses new issues and challenges for economic growth arising from ongoing significant change in the world economy, focusing especially on technological transformation. The project is a collaboration between the Brookings Institution and the Korea Development Institute. Part I of the book looks at key elements of change from a global perspective. It analyzes how technological change, shifts in investment, and demographic transition are affecting potential economic growth globally and across major groups of economies. The contributors explore possible scenarios for the global economy as the digital revolution drives rapid technological change, including impacts on growth, jobs, income distribution, trade balances, and capital flows. Technology is changing the global configuration of comparative advantage and globalization increasingly has a digital dimension. The implications of these developments for the future of sectors such as manufacturing and for international trade are assessed. Part II of the book addresses new issues in the growth agenda from the perspective of an individual major economy: South Korea. The chapters in this section analyze how macroeconomic developments and technological change are influencing the behavior of households and firms in terms of their decisions to consume, save, and invest. Rising income and wealth inequalities are a major concern globally. Against this backdrop, trends in the labor income share and wage inequalities in South Korea are analyzed in terms of the role played by technology, industrial concentration, shifts in labor demand and supply, and other factors. Throughout the book, the contributors, in their analysis of both global and Korea-specific trends and prospects, place emphasis on drawing implications for policy.


Technology, Growth, and Development

Technology, Growth, and Development

Author: Vernon W. Ruttan

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9780195118711

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Technology, Growth, and Development uniquely presents the complexities of technical and institutional change on the foundation of modern growth theory. The author shows how the rates and directions of technical change are induced by changes in competitive funding and institutional innovations in the modern research university and industrial laboratory. In turn, technical change itself becomes a powerful source of institutional change. Organized by the author in four parts, the first-Productivity and Economic Growth-gives specific reasons for the slowing of productivity growth in the United States and other leading industrial countries during the last quarter of the twentieth century. In Part II-Sources of Technical Change-the author examines a host of economic factors that influence invention and innovation; the rate and direction of institutional change; and the adoption, diffusion, and transfer of technology. In Part III-Technical Innovation and Industrial Change-he traces the sources and impact of technical change in five strategically important industries: agriculture, electric power, chemical, computer, and biotechnology. The final section, Part IV-Technology Policy-evaluates the role of technical change in international competition, the role of science and technology in environmental policy, and the evolution of U.S. science and technology policy. Technology, Growth, and Development makes few mathematical demands on students, and will be used in courses within economics departments as well as management and public affairs. In addition, it will be required reading for professional economists, managers, and policy analysts at all levels.


General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth

General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth

Author: Elhanan Helpman

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780262082631

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Traditionally, economists have considered the accumulation of conventional inputs such as labour and capital to be the primary force behind economic growth. In the late-1990s however, many economists place technological progress at the centre of the growth process. This shift is due to theoretical developments that allow researchers to link microeconomic outcomes.


Innovation and Economic Development

Innovation and Economic Development

Author: Lynn Krieger Mytelka

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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Provides a theoretical foundation in innovation systems, processes, institutions and policies from the perspective of developing countries. This book covers the topics of capacity building, learning, industrial development, agricultural innovation and sustainable development.


State of Innovation

State of Innovation

Author: Fred L. Block

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1317251423

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The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three decades. State of Innovation brings together critical essays looking at the 'innovation industry' in the context of the current crisis. The book shows how government programs and policies have underpinned technological innovation in the US economy over the last four decades, despite the strength of 'free market' political rhetoric. The contributors provide new insights into where innovations come from and how governments can support a dynamic innovation economy as the US recovers from a profound economic crisis. State of Innovation outlines a 21st century policy paradigm that will foster cutting-edge innovation which remains accountable to the public.