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R&D, Innovation, and Economic Growth : An Empirical Analysis
Ulku, Hulya - 2006
This paper investigates the main postulations of the Ramp;D based growth models that innovation is created in the Ramp …;D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of Ramp … for the period 1981-97. The results suggest a positive relationship between per capita GDP and innovation in both OECD and …
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No Innovator's Dilemma : Re-Examining Clayton Christensen's Evidence for Disruptive Technology in the Hard Disk Drive Industry
CHIU, Wan-Ting - 2015
Christensen (1997) provided evidence for disruptions in the hard disk drive industry by examining the technological changes of disk drives. By building up the disruption model, Christensen argues that the failures of the established firms in the industry to respond to simple technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049892
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Directed technical change and the resource curse
Greaker, Mads; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2022
The "resource curse" is a potential threat to all countries relying on export income from abundant natural resources such as fossil fuels. The early literature hypothesized that easily accessible natural resources would lead to lack of technological progress. In this article we instead propose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013387387
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R&D, Innovation, and Economic Growth : An Empirical Analysis
Ulku, Hulya - 2015
This paper investigates the main postulations of the R&D based growth models that innovation is created in the R …&D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of R … the period 1981-97. The results suggest a positive relationship between per capita GDP and innovation in both OECD and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067262
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Are technology improvement rates of knowledge industries following Moore’s law? : an empirical study of microprocessor, mobile cellular, and genome sequencing technologies
Chang, Yu Sang; Lee, Jinsoo; Jung, Yun Seok - 2012
Many of the critical technologies in knowledge economy are undergoing an exponential rate of rapid improvement. The best known roadmap to guide exponential trend of improvement has been provided by Moore’s law. This paper will update the validity of Moore’s law by applying it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568899
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Technology Standards - New Technical Barriers to Trade?
Gibson, Christopher S. - 2007
At a time when the high-tech industry has increasingly demanded harmonized standards, China has signaled its intention to follow a different direction. China's recent actions seeking to set its own unique standards instead of adopting international standards shifts focus to the impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777817
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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry
Bonny, Sylvie - 2017
In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945749
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Smart Technologies, Human Security and Global Justice
Qerimi, Qerim R. - 2021
This chapter explores pertinent international trends in decision and articulates contemporary discourse in the discrete domain of the relationship between smart technologies and human security and global justice. The fundamental aim of the chapter is to assess the rather rapidly developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248607
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Technology and Growth in a Fixed Physical World
Jefferson, Gary H. - 2018
In the conventional neoclassical growth model, technical change is generally characterized as “purely labor-augmenting,” a restriction that limits modern civilization to super-humans living in the Stone Age. As a novel and radical departure from conventional growth theory, the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914009
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Innovation and patenting activities of COVID-19 vaccines in WTO members : analytical review of Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) COVID-19 Vaccines Patent Landscape (VaxPaL)
Chiang, Ting-Wei; Wu, Xiaoping - 2022 - Manuscript date: 18 January 2022
trends of innovation and patenting activities of COVID-19 vaccines in WTO Members, and presents the legal status of the 74 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818093