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 …

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

technology was a major part of the government response. The U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) led a major … life, while laying the foundation for postwar innovation policy. Scholars and policymakers have appealed to the wartime … innovation effort: priority setting, selecting and engaging researchers, a funding mechanism, coordinating research efforts, and …

Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it … skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a tractable quantitative model of international trade in capital goods to …

compare decentralization--where the business unit using the technology makes licensing decisions--to centralized licensing … technology markets favors centralization and drives higher licensing rates. Our model conforms to the existing evidence that …

these shortcomings by focusing on technological learning-by-doing: the notion that it takes workers time using a technology …

, technology, and geography, and that none of these alone is sufficient to account for the diverse patterns of global growth. We …

-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue …