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progression of scientific findings through a major university's technology transfer process and 2.) firms' use of the academic …
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many sectors, but they also present new risks from potential misuse. We develop a multi-sector technology adoption model to … optimal adoption is gradual and convex. If social damages are proportional to the productivity gains from the new technology …
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progress and technology adoption. In standard endogenous growth models, which feature a strong scale effect, an increase in the … define technology as strongly labor saving if the aggregate production function of the economy exhibits decreasing … differences in the appropriate index of technology, theta, and labor. Conversely, technology is strongly labor complementary if …
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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 …
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that Japan is not spending much on basic technology development cannot be empirically substantiated from the study of the … technology.The second part of the paper is to show how two countries, one with heavy R&D activities in basic technology (the U ….S.A.)and the other with heavy R&D activities in applied technology(Japan), can compete in the world market with their productivity …
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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 …
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We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology … adoption decisions of the users of new technologies. Technology adoption involves an implementation investment that determines … the initial productivity of a new technology. After implementation, learning increases the productivity of a technology to …
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We investigate what happens to hours worked after a positive shock to technology, using the aggregate technology series …
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a rising return to education, unobserved skill, and work experience, but there is little research into causes of the … change in structure. This paper seeks to fill the gap by study- ing the impact of domestic technology, foreign technology and … work we devise measures of foreign and domestic R&D inputs for 6 sectors of the private U.S. economy, and of R&D outputs …
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creation of formal technology licensing offices at universities. Up until approximately the mid-1980s, university patents were …
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