and technology, science and technology became increasingly incomprehensible to all but a few specialists. Maintaining a … policies relevant to science and technology. But could popularisations really supply sufficient information to validate those …

The usual way to evaluate the implications of new technology for economic growth is through growth accounting … technology (ICT) and the results have dominated thinking on the post-1995 growth resurgence in the United States (Oliner and …

industrialnations of the world. Thus, German enterprises face increasing innovation pressurein order to cope with Germany’s position as … leader of knowledge and technology. Thenecessary solidarity is realized and supported by business co-operations in …

The paper considers technology diffusion and develops a model at the level of theSME. Technology diffusion in the form … of new or improved technology, thetransmission of knowledge or technical expertise is investigated. This involves … spilloversthrough formal and informal networks enabling learning by interacting and anabsorptive capacity to assimilate new technology …

restraint (both agents choosing the ecologically or environmentallysound technology) is not necessarily achieved. Furthermore …

technology adoption and trade in a world of two countriesfacing different technology adoption costs. It shows that a reduction in … the technologyadoption cost in one country increases the productivity, induces more firms to adoptadvanced technology, and … improves welfare in this country, while decreasing the pro-ductivity, inducing more firms to switch back to old technology, and …

technology and market structure (…rms minimize costs and facecommon factor prices), we show that welfare change can be decomposed …