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Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now …
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The relationship between technology, productivity and employment is a complex one. Increased productivity can lead not … can develop new markets. On the other hand, if demand and hence output does not expand in line with productivity, then an … inverse relation between productivity and employment will result. The European Union seeks to improve living standards in …
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Allocations of research funds across programs are often made for efficiency reasons. Social science research is shown to have small, lagged but significant effects on U.S. agricultural efficiency when public agricultural R&D and extension are simultaneously taken into account. Farm management...
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relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we …We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the … employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we …
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participants to do business through information and communication technology (ICT) tools and systems is dependent on the innovation … of the user, not only the technology itself – i.e. the successful implementation of ICT requires careful consideration to …
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Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
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This paper examines the relative performance of three different systems of forecasting movements in macro building prices. The three systems analysed are (1) the Building Cost Information Service system, (2) the Davis, Langdon & Everest system, and (3) Akintoye and Skitmore's reduced-form...
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With perpetual strains on resources, road agencies need to develop network-level decision-making frameworks to ensure optimum resource allocation. This is especially true for intelligent transport systems (ITS), and in particular, variable message signs (VMS), a key component of incident...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study is concerned with change in the factors that drive and support innovation, focusing on the influences of business behaviour and industrial dynamics. The study draws on seven sectoral case studies: computer games, dairy products, mineral exploration, motor vehicles,...
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provides recommendations to the fleet manager for selecting new buses, in terms of technology and emissions, in order to attain …
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