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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...
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in labour intensity in low technology enterprises. The technological investments have a positive impact on labour …The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of technology investments on production efficiency in manufacturing … companies and how different these relationships are for low-technology and high-technology companies. The empirical part was …
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As technology is one of the main drives of economy, many studies attempt to open this black box and understand how it … functions. In this paper, I will discuss the benefits of examining technology as a system and emphasis on the linkage between … having an empirical method to identify technology as a system. From public policy point of view there are many benefits …
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technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken … from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use is defined first as incidence (whether a technology is used) and second as … characteristics that represent the competencies of the plant reporting technology use--its size, the size of its owning enterprise …
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rigorously shown that both types of technology positively affect firms and industries in South Korea. How is this technological … considerably. The results indicate that in general the size of firms is rather neutral to the influence of technology and all other …
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This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect...
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China, market size and urbanization; and technological factors such as digital technology adoption. An inverse U …
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