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What Does Total Factor Productivity Measure?
Lipsey, Richard G.; Carlaw, Kenneth - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 31-40
In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Richard G. Lipsey of Simon Fraser University and Kenneth Carlaw of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand provide a trenchant critique of the concept of total factor productivity. They conclude that "the degree of...
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Tales From Two Neighbors; Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States
Cerisola, Martin D.; Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment-specific technical change, associated with...
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Financial Development, the Structure of Capital Markets, and the Global Digital Divide
Yartey, Charles Amo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the role of financial development and financial structure in explaining cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the paper finds that credit and stock market...
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Information Technology and Productivity Growth in Asia
Lee, Il Houng; Khatri, Yougesh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
The contribution of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to growth in Asian economies is clearly evident from the expenditure side (net exports) and became particularly significant in the second half of the 1990s. This paper employs an extension of the standard growth...
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You Say You Want a Revolution; Information Technology and Growth
Morsink, James; Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
The information technology (IT) revolution has arrived, but how much will it change the world? It has been established that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production...
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Improving Distributed Intelligence in Complex Innovation Systems
Kuhlmann, Stefan; Boekholt, Patries; Georghiou, Luke; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
industrial innovation, while innovation is conceived to basically feed the regeneration of our welfare. The suppliers of S&T in …
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Delphi Austria - An Example of Tailoring Foresight to the Needs of a Small Country
Aichholzer, Georg - Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung (ITA), … - 2001
The world-wide diffusion and recognition of Technology Foresight suggests that it is of value for quite diverse types of economies and societies. Its merit as an important tool of strategic intelligence for policy-making also in small countries and transition economies depends on a careful...
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Analisi economica dell’impatto tecnologico
Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2006
comprehensive taxonomy. The scale is used for a theoretical framework of measurement –technometrics- based on the economic impact of …
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Technology and Technometrics approachesne
Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2004
The technological innovation, nowadays, is one of the most important determinant for increasing the wealth of the … Technometrics is born: it is a new theoretical framework for the conception and measurement of technological change with important … policy implications (Sahal, 1985). The aim of this paper is, after introducing the concepts of technological innovation as …
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Technometrics based on economic impact of the technological change
Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2002
The economics of innovation presents a lot of taxonomy of innovation. In this research you introduce the scale of … measurement – technometrics - based on the economic impact of the technological change on the economic system. The intensity of … innovation is calculated by a integral of a function in an n-dimensional space. …
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