technology was a major part of the government response. The U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) led a major … World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a … general overview of how OSRD approached several questions that may confront any crisis innovation effort: priority setting …

In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains … from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research … and development, brands, and organization capital. What distinguishes technology capital from other forms of capital is …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During technological …

Well functioning Markets for Technology (MFT) allow inventors to sell their inventions to others that may derive more …

differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment … hiring and training response is quicker than the wage response. We also observe in time series that the pace of technology … technology, maturing of the workforce, and growth of international trade reduce unemployment in the longer run. The same …

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first … conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property … tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then randomize the use of a new revenue collection technology within one large …