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Engines of Growth in the U.S. Economy
ten Raa, Thijs; Wolff, Edward N. - 2015
There is good reason to believe that R&D influences on TFP growth in other sectors are indirect. For R&D to spill over, it must first be successful in the home sector. Indeed, observed spillovers conform better to TFP growth than to R&D in the upstream sectors. Sectoral TFP growth rates are thus...
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Positive Sum Strategy : Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth
Landau, Ralph - 1986
Concerned About Economics? -- Why Should Economists Be Concerned About Technology? -- THEMES OF THIS VOLUME -- Contents …: TECHNOLOGY (EMBODIED AND DISEMBODIED) -- INSIDE THE BLACK BOX OF TECHNOLOGY -- THE INNOVATIVE PROCESS AND ITS PROPER CLIMATE … LIMITATIONS OF THE EXPERT -- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Macroeconomics, Technology, and …
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The positive sum strategy : harnessing technology for economic growth
Landau, Ralph (ed.); Rosenberg, N. (ed.) - 1986
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The nexus between creative workforce and economic development : looking for the causal relation
Russo, Antonio Paolo; Domínguez, Alan Quaglieri; … - 2012
Building on work funded by the ESPON 2013 Program, the paper analyses the regional trajectories of development of a "creative workforce" among its active population against regional economic growth, measured by changes in per capita GDP over the period 2001-2008 in 317 NUTS2 regions of the ESPON...
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The Deep Roots of Economic Development in the U.S. States
Murphy, Ryan; Nowrasteh, Alex - 2016
The “Deep Roots” literature investigates the effects of deep cultural variables on outcomes. We attempt to identify how these deep cultural variables actually affect per capita output by expanding Putterman and Weil’s (2010) inquiry on the effects of State History and Agricultural History...
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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies
Plummer, Lawrence A.; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2004
New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...
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Information Technology, Firm Size, and Industrial Concentration
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Jin, Wang; Wang, Xiupeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Information flows, and thus information technology (IT) are central to the structure of firms and markets. Using data …
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A Time-Series Analysis of U.S. E-Commerce Sales
White, D. Steven; Ariguzo, Godwin - 2014
Merely seventeen years old in the U.S. market, electronic commerce (e-commerce) sales continue to grow rapidly on an annual basis. At the macro level, U.S. e-commerce sales for 2010 totaled $166.5 billion. Although this total is impressive, it represents only 4.28 percent of the total of U.S....
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Of Markets and Subsidies : Counterintuitive Policy Trends for Clean Energy in the European Union and the United States
Mormann, Felix - 2020
The United States is commonly characterized as a nation with a deep distrust of big government and a strong commitment to markets and competition. In contrast, the prevailing image of the European Union is that of a highly bureaucratized polity favoring interventionist economic governance over...
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Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation : Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data
Braginskij, Sergej V.; Choi, Joonkyu; Ding, Yuheng; Jo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
generating "novel patents"--innovations that introduce new combinations of technology components for the first time. While the … technological contents, characterized by increasing integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and non … of follow-on patents (subsequent patents that use the same combinations of technology components as the first novel …
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