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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009
This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441225
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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH
Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R. - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
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Investments in energy technological change under uncertainty
Shittu, Ekundayo - 2009
This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in energy technological change. The rising level of carbon emissions due to increasing global energy consumption calls for policy shift. In order to stem the negative consequences on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467959
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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2003
This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477147
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Adjustment Costs, Learning-by-Doing, and Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty
Pavlova, Anna - 2002
We consider a variety of vintage capital models of a firm?s choice of technology under uncertaintyin the presence of adjustment costs and technology-specific learning. Similar models have beenstudied in a deterministic setting. Part of our objective is to examine the robustness of...
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A New Measure of the Producer Welfare Effects of Technological Change
Bullock, David S. - 2011
It is well recognized that the statistical reliability of the conventional method of estimating the effects of technological change on producer welfare is often quite poor. I present a method that enhances the statistical reliability of such estimates. I emphasize that when measuring the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444347
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Über die Anreize umweltpolitischer Instrumente in saubere Technologien zu investieren bei Unsicherheit über den Verfügbarkeitszeitpunkt zukünftiger Technologien
Andreas von Döllen - 2007
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Investition in neue, emissionsärmere Technologien, bei dem der Entscheider eine große, langfristige Investition tätigt und den dafür optimalen Zeitpunkt wählt. Dabei wird sowohl der gesamtwirtschaftliche Kontext, also die effiziente Allokation der neuen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428968
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What is brand mimicry? a conceptual investigation in the luxury brand industry
Huimin, Teah - 2010
innovation. While Mimicry has been applied to various areas of sciences such as engineering, biomimetics and behavioural sciences … whether mimicry inhibits innovation, or which type of mimicry would be better evaluated. As such, mimicry in Marketing is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435010
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Patents and Antitrust: Application to Adjacent Markets
Economides, Nicholas; Herbert, WILLIAM N.; Calvo and … - NYU Stern School of Business - 2007
between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the … goods; design changes tomedical devices; and changes in drug formulas. While the patent lawsprovide a spur to innovation by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435110
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A view of entrepreneurship and innovation from the economist 'for all seasons' Joseph S. Schumpeter
Harvey, Michael; Kiessling, Timothy; Moeller, Miriam - 2010
entrepreneurship on one of their champions, Joseph Schumpeter. Schumpeter's insights on innovation and entrepreneurship issues are …, though imperfectly, without interference. Originality/value - The paper suggests that innovation and entrepreneurship are the …
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