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/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both …; and facilitate payments. We evaluate the role of technology in South African fresh fruit and selected processed food value …
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New processes significantly affect firms and workers; however, due to a lack of quantitative indicators, our understanding of the measures, determinants, and impacts of new processes remains limited. Drawing on unique data from Pakistan, we analyzed five different measures of process innovation...
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the market for technology. The commitment to limit trade to reciprocal exchange (barter instead of cash transactions …
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) or to the improvement of the quality of machines without altering their underlying technology (innovations). Learning … in expanding the technology frontier; (b) when inventions occur they tend to arrive in clusters; and (c) a life-cycle of …
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The fundamental problem in the field of technology studies is how technology evolves and sustains economic change in … technology in human societies. Technological host-parasites coevolution is a mutual symbiotic relationship between a host … technology and associated technologies directed to satisfy needs and/or to solve problems of human beings. To explore the …
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This study provides a new, more comprehensive measurement of technological novelty. Integrating insights from the existing economics and management literature, we characterize inventions ex ante along two dimensions of technological novelty: Novelty in Recombination and Novelty in Knowledge...
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technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken … from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use is defined first as incidence (whether a technology is used) and second as … characteristics that represent the competencies of the plant reporting technology use--its size, the size of its owning enterprise …
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Namibia and assesses whether exporting activity and use of information communication technology play any role in growth of the … communication technology, exporting activities, foreign ownership and the legal form of the firm. The result is robust even when … through rolling out information communication technology infrastructure and promoting access to exporting markets. …
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In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Richard G. Lipsey of Simon Fraser University and Kenneth Carlaw of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand provide a trenchant critique of the concept of total factor productivity. They conclude that "the degree of...
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This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of...
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