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industrial development in China. Third, we provide evidence on achievements in indigenous innovation—by which we mean …, we sketch out the implications of our approach for current debates on the role of innovation in China’s development path …
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the dynamics of science, technology and innovation and their relationship to economic growth. Considering the approach …
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Development of IT/e-business is a centerpiece of renewed economic growth in most countries of East Asia. This paper considers the challenges for policy focusing on the acquisition of knowledge and its utilization. While many countries in East Asia are well along the way toward upgraded...
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of growth. Second, we provide an overview of the literature on sectoral innovation patterns as well as of recent evidence … final part we present productivity decompositions using a sectoral innovation taxonomy to study the contribution of … different groups of activities characterized by heterogeneous innovation patterns. Our results suggest that structural change …
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cognitive skills as a driver of innovation and diffusion. Although there is substantial diversity, the new human capital index …
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An important role of education - and the resultant accumulation of human capital - for a less-developed economy is to facilitate technology diffusion in order for it to catch up with developed economies. This paper presents a model linking education, the accumulation of physical capital and...
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In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...
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Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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