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Information technology (IT) is all-pervading, and as an infrastructure, it is likely to mold institutional quality. As …
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Technological changes are “the main engine of capitalism and evolution” (A. Toffler), “the fundamental driving force in transformation of an economy” (C. Freeman). The paper proposes a theoretical investigation of information and communication technologies evolution and their impact on...
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Technological changes are "the main engine of capitalism and evolution" (A. Toffler), "the fundamental driving force in transformation of an economy" (C. Freeman). The paper proposes a theoretical investigation of information and communication technologies evolution and their impact on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991999
realistic dispersion of income levels with modest barriers to technology adoption. Human capital and physical capital contribute … to income differences both directly (as usual), and indirectly by boosting resources devoted to technology adoption. The … model implies that most of income above subsistence is made possible by international diffusion of knowledge. …
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trade tensions on the healthcare sector and the economy at large through secondary impacts on, for example, adoption rates … of these two external shocks from the perspective of the healthcare sector. The paper also analyses likely impacts of the … as active pharmaceutical ingredients, as well as technological components including those required for 5G adoption. While …
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Judge Bryson recently asserted in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office (dissenting-in-part) that human gene patents "present a significant obstacle to the next generation of innovation in genetic medicine — multiplex tests and whole-genome sequencing." His...
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Digitalisation can be described as a sequence of technology and supply shocks which affect the economy through … employment and labour markets, productivity and output, and competition and market structure. This paper focuses on how … digitalisation - the process of diffusion of digital technologies - is affected by institutions and governance. It discusses a number …
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I investigate how changes in fees paid to Medicaid physicians affect take-up among children in low-income families. The existing literature suggests that the low level of Medicaid fee payments to physicians reduces their willingness to see Medicaid patients, thus creating an access-to-care...
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The problem of antimicrobial resistance has led some infectious disease experts and their professional societies to propose the use of transferable intellectual property rights (wildcard patents) and patent term extensions as methods to encourage antimicrobial Ramp;D. We evaluate recent...
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higher the level of competition between manufacturers, the lower the price of insulin. In summary, lowering trade barriers on …
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