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Germany's broadband networks - innovation on hold

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

The market for information and communication technologies is changing rapidly. Products and applications that used to be completely separate are becoming almost interchangeable. Sweeping change lies ahead in voice and data telephony: the fixed-line telephone network faces new competition from...

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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth

Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004

This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …

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Mobile telephony - cooperation and value-added are key to further success

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

The current problems in mobile telephony are leading critics to make overly pessimistic predictions that 3G – the third-generation mobile phone system – will never become profitable. However, the resulting calls not to introduce 3G and instead directly back alternative wireless technologies...

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From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004

This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per capita, technology, and population over the course...

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3G - chance for take-off in mobile

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

It became clear early on that UMTS, also known as 3G (third-generation mobile phone systems), would be a key technology for profitable markets of the future. However UMTS technology offers some major advantages that can be demonstrated under laboratory conditions but which it will not be...

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Human Capital Composition, Growth and Development in an R&D Endogenous Growth Model

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The effect of human capital on growth and development has been somewhat neglected in economic literature. However, evidence has suggested the importance of engineering and technical skills to economic growth. Simultaneously, European Commission and OECD has presented data that reveal the...

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Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2005

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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2004

The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...

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E-payments: modern complement to traditional payment systems

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

The challenges of payment transactions in electronic commerce were initially underestimated, as is now clear in the light of technological progress and stricter legislation, meaning traditional business models are increasingly coming up against their limits. Only secure, user- friendly and...

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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

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