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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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The Danger of Underdeveloped Patent Prospects
Abramowicz, Michael - 2015
Commentators have long recognized that much of the work of commercializing an invention occurs after a patent issues … remaining patent term might be sufficiently short such that a patentee will not develop an invention to the extent that the … patentee would if more patent term remained. This concern about patent underdevelopment provides a counterweight to patent …
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Post-Keynesian Perspectives on Economic Development and Growth
Kriesler, Peter - 2012
As history, institutions, social and political forces specific to any economy have a profound effect on that economy's dynamics, it is important to understand how these have evolved with the development of capitalism. The classical economists analysed economies with labour surpluses, which kept...
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Patents, Innovation, and Development
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2020
, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I … followed by a review of recent work by myself and co‐authors on regional patent systems, the impact of patents on firm …
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The Growth and Development of New Economy Industries
Beckstead, Desmond - 2014
This study explores the industrial dimensions of the New Economy. It examines the growth and development of industries that provide the technological and scientific foundations for the New Economy — a collection of information and communications technology (ICT) industries, both in services...
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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013
By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers ́productivity but also accelerated innovative...
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Economic Development in Historical Political Economy
Morales-Arilla, Jose; Ricart-Huguet, Joan; Wantchekon, … - 2022
Understanding the primary causes of human prosperity is one of the most important endeavors of social scientists. Much research in the 20th century followed a neo-classical approach which emphasized important factors such as physical capital, human capital, and technological change, but was...
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Democratization is the Driving Force for Technological and Economic Change
Coccia, Mario - 2015
innovation. In primis, the paper shows, through economic history, that democratization is an antecedent process (cause) to technological and economic change (effect). In particular, the primary finding is that democratization is a driving force for technological change: most free...
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Competitiveness, Growth through Innovation and Economic Development
Turlajs, Gints - 2013
This paper reviews differences between countries in innovation, entrepreneurship, economic development and competitiveness levels. For this examples of the Baltic Sea region countries and China are used. With the introduction of Lisbon agenda and also long before that the European Union has...
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Distance to the Pre-industrial Technological Frontier and Economic Development
Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the effects of distance to the pre-industrial technological frontiers on comparative economic development in the course of human history. It establishes theoretically and empirically that distance to the frontier had a persistent non-monotonic effect on a country's...
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