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Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Grossmann, Volker - 2007

structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …

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European Innovation Dynamics and Us Economic Impact : Theory and Empirical Analysis

Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015

can offer a broad analysis of product innovation dynamics in Europe which should be the basis for not only better supply … communication in relation to product innovation dynamics. Moreover, the approach provides new important arguments in favor of the … TTIP negotiations between the US and the EU and it suggests a broader analytical link between trade, FDI, innovation …

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Sooner Rather than Later : Social Networks and Technology Adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; Sun, Yi - 2021

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice - 2012

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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The Value of Information in Technology Adoption

Islam, Asad - 2019

We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others about the quality of a new technology and on their risk attitudes. We test the predictions of this model using a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the...

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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution

Chéron, Arnaud - 2012

Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Abebe, Girum - 2020

We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector. One third of Ethiopian plants are linked to FDI through labor sharing, supply chains and competition. Technology upgrading most commonly occurs as...

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Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2016

Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...

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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders

Winkler, Anne E. - 2012

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...

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