We develop a model of growth driven by successive improvements in `General Purpose Technologies' (GPTs), such as the … second phase that growth starts in earnest. The historical record of productivity growth associated with electrification, and …

The sector business services contributes directly and indirectly to aggregate economic growth in Europe. The direct … cyclical volatility, there was also a strong structural growth. Business services actually generated more than half of total … net employment growth in the European Union since the second half of the 1990s. Apart from this direct growth contribution …

simulations, well known industrial dynamic and growth type stylized facts. Moreover, we focus the analysis on the impact of these …

requiring plausible long-term projections of economic growth by country or region. The workshop included presentations by … leading academics and OECD staff from the Economics Department, the Directorates of the Environment, Science and Technology …

model is that growth in agricultural productivity is central to development, a message that also appears prominently in the …

We examine the contributions of the telecommunications infrastructure to economic growth in the Asia-Pacific Economic … has a significant effect on economic growth in the APEC region and that the inclusion of country fixed effects is … important for obtaining a more reliable estimate of the growth effect. Moreover, the magnitude of the growth effect is inversely …

face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D. High growth rates of innovations, possibly higher than the real rate … patent and trademark office that minimizes the legal uncertainty surrounding patents as collateral and maximizes the growth …

Given the decline in growth momentum in the manufacturing sector in many OECD countries, the role of knowledge …-based capital has emerged as a key driver for sustained growth. While empirical studies on estimating knowledge spillovers have …. This paper therefore assesses the effect of spillovers in driving per capita output growth taking into account the role of …

, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly dependent on knowledge and technology, while the economic costs of … years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example …

but also a poor performance in important sectors, like the information and communication technology sector. Reforms to … raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued. Current project-based R&D-support and business subsidies seem … current targeted support. Capital taxation should be streamlined to improve incentives for entrepreneurship and growth. The …