, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …

differences, unobserved region-industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We … findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration, and increasing …

relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete contracts model. Then, we investigate … find that the technology intensities of downstream (producer) and upstream (supplier) industries have opposite effects on … measures of technology intensity, with alternative estimation strategies, and with or without controlling for a number of firm …

four countries; (iii) the results are robust to using education instead of occupation as a measure of skill, and … computerization instead of R&D as a measure of technology; (iv) in the Anglo-Saxon countries a maximum of one-third of the aggregate …

management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then … adjustment in technology-using sectors if it is not suited to the social capabilities of the society; (4) reversal of …