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Mukoyama, Toshihiko - EconWPA - 2003

What determines the speed of the technology diffusion? What are the consequences of diffusion? This paper presents a model to address these questions. Skilled machine-users adopt a new technology first, while unskilled users wait until machines become more reliable and accessible. The quality...

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Innovation height, spillovers and TFP growth at the firm level: Evidence from French manufacturing

Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …

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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach

Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005

The formulation of a competitive strategy implies an extended understanding, in terms of the industrial structures, of the mains fields where the nations compete and those structures evolve. The environmental conditions of a region, and of its industries, determine both the generic strategies,...

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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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Wants and Past Knowledge: Growth Cycles with Emerging Industries

Horii, Ryo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a theory of endogenous growth cycles focusing on the interaction between consumers' desire to satisfy an indefinite range of wants and firms' incentive to utilize knowledge from past production experiences. We show that firms endogenously form a number of distinguishable...

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Economic Growth and the Financial Economics of Capital Accumulation under Shifting Technological Change

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S; Newcomb, Richard T. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper develops a simple and practical framework for characterizing (long-run) economic growth and fluid capital accumulation under shifting technological change. The framework specifies a technological change that depends on exogenous and endogenous factors as well as the interaction...

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Human Capital Composition, R&D and the Increasing Role of Services

Sequeira, Tiago; Reis, Ana Balcão - EconWPA - 2004

A growth model with endogenous innovation and accumulation of high-tech and low- tech human capital is developed. The …

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Patterns of Advanced Technology Adoption and Manufacturing Performance: Employment Growth, Labor Productivity, and Employee Earnings

Beede, David N.; Young, Kan H. - EconWPA - 1996

Previous studies of the relationship between technology adoption and performance in U.S. manufacturing plants take the number of technologies in use as a measure of technological sophistication. These studies generally find a positive monotonic relationship between technology counts and...

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

Human brain has invented the Computer&upgraded it to a level of Combrains. With Artificial Chemical Memory, these may grow to function as independent Iintellects, Master/Sponsor representatives and self- decision workers with autonomy&supreme capability. Like any human society learn and function...

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Export variety and economic growth in East European transition economies

Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf - EconWPA - 2003

Utilising panel data for 14 East European transition economies, we find support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of export variety relative to the U.S. helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...

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