Zvi Griliches's contributions to the economics of technology and growth are identified. Included is a discussion of his … contributions on: the determinants of differences in speed of adoption of innovations; the use of patents to measure technology; the … important unanswered questions in the economics of technology and growth. …

. However, low labour productivity is one of the serious problems related to this sector. It is argued that technological … Target groups both at the National and Regional level. Associated policies should address availability of proper technology …

This paper reviews research that uses longitudinal microdata to document productivity movements and to examine factors … behind productivity growth. The research explores the dispersion of productivity across firms and establishments, the … persistence of productivity differentials, the consequences of entry and exit, and the contribution of resource reallocation …

We document comparative productivity performance since 1870, showing the importance of services for US overtaking of … interaction between technology, organisation and economic performance is then provided, focusing on the transition from networks …

This paper describes an attempt to build a regression-based system of labor productivity equations that incorporate the ….S. economy. Builders of regression-based forecasting models have long had difficulty finding labor productivity equations that … productivity. Theory dictates that this causation is driven by the effect of traditional capital deepening as well as technological …

employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …

infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …). Domestic investments should be from Domestic Savings. Domestic Technology should be manned by Domestic Manpower. These could …

The strength of U.S. productivity growth in recent years has been attributed to technological improvements that are, in … progress for assessing U.S. productivity trends. …

We describe a methodology to infer the extent of international technology diffusion and to decompose the sources of … productivity growth in each of the other major research economies. Nevertheless, innovations do have a greater impact at home than …