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As a consequence of economic reforms, the Indian manufacturing sector faces a variety of technology related challenges. It not only has to quickly develop world-class manufacturing capabilities, but also gear up to develop new products and processes. In this paper we analyse the technology...
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As a consequence of economic reforms, the Indian manufacturing sector faces a variety of technology related challenges. It not only has to quickly develop world-class manufacturing capabilities, but also gear up to develop new products and processes. In this paper we analyse the technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005269546
A technology index based on R&D, skilled labour and capital vintage was developed and used to characterise industrial firms by technology level, facilitating the analysis of relationships between technology and economic performance at the firm level. The results show that technology-intensive...
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Identifying the elements of physical and organizational infrastructure most important for technological innovation is … challenging for at least two reasons: measuring technological innovation is difficult; and establishing causality is difficult. In … this paper, we partially address these paired challenges by (1) describing a new approach for measuring innovation, and (2 …
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Using data derived from a number of stand alone surveys in different countries, this paper explores international differences in the paths of diffusion of new manufacturing technologies. It is observed that diffusion paths are technology specific and that no one country either in Europe or North...
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The identification of innovation in service firms is problematic since there is no consensus of opinion on its … conceptualization. Recent papers suggest both distinctive features of innovation in services and distinctive types of service innovation … conceptualizing service innovation as a specific case of service development with a reference to Schumpeter, but not as strict as …
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This manuscript reports on the proceedings of an R&D Roundtable that took place at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the summer of 1999. Zvi Griliches envisioned the Roundtable as a chance to discuss the agenda for economic research on R&D over the next 20 years. Daron Acemoglu,...
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In this paper, it is argued that investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) are closely linked to complementary innovations and are most productive in firms with experience from earlier innovations. In the empirical analysis based on firm-level panel data covering the period...
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