The growth process for a technological leader is different from that of a follower. While followers can grow through imitation and capital deepening, a leader must undertake original research. This suggests that as the gap between the leader and the follower narrows, the follower must undertake...

This paper is concerned with the validity of historical claims that there may be a "penelty" of being a pionee. The analysis applies Aghion and Howitt's (1994) distinction between fundamental end secondary knowledge to investigate the existence of a "penalty" of being pioneer with general...

After a dramatic slowdown in the 1970s, productivity growth in UK manufacturing in the 1980s returned to something like its pre-slowdown trend. This paper constructs a quarterly dynamic model of TFP growth in UK manufacturing using cointegration techniques, correcting for a variety of...

"creative destruction" refers to the way that economic advances make existeng economic capital ideas absolescent: thay are partially destroyed (in value term). Existing models have only considered how additions to economic knowledge make existing knowledge less valuable. This paper recognises...

This paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discussed and the theory behind this equation is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature...