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General purpose technologies and the Industrial Revolution
Dudley, Leonard - 2010
potential willingness to cooperate. The result is regional specialization in the innovation process by degree of cooperation … discouraged downstream innovation in their regions where such direct cooperation was not required. … regions in technologies where cooperation was necessary to integrate distinct fields of expertise; (3) however, GPTs …
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Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth : Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization
Braguinsky, Serguey - 2020
empirical framework allows for separate treatment of product innovation (vertical differentiation) and diversification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843477
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General purpose technologies and the Industrial Revolution
Dudley, Leonard M. - 2010
potential willingness to cooperate. The result is regional specialization in the innovation process by degree of cooperation … discouraged downstream innovation in their regions where such direct cooperation was not required. -- General Purpose Technologies … ; Industrial Revolution ; innovation ; cooperation ; spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662878
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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001
The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704737
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General Purpose Technologies and the Industrial Revolution
Dudley, Leonard - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
innovation in theirregions where such direct cooperation was not required... … potential willingness tocooperate. The result is regional specialization in the innovation process by degree ofcooperation … technologies where cooperation was necessary to integratedistinct fields of expertise; (3) however, GPTs discouraged downstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009138628
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Deskilling among Manufacturing Production Workers
Kunst, David - 2019
Although four out of five manufacturing employees work in production occupations in most countries (as opposed to white collar occupations), there is little international evidence on how the transition to more capital intensive production methods has affected the demand for different groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114803
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How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
Kohn, Meir - 2010
Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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Deskilling among Manufacturing Production Workers
Kunst, David - 2019
Although four out of five manufacturing employees work in production occupations in most countries (as opposed to white collar occupations), there is little international evidence on how the transition to more capital intensive production methods has affected the demand for different groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865615
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Evolution of the Global Lysine Industry, 1960-2000
Connor, John M. - 2013
During its first three decades, the world lysine industry consisted of only three manufacturers protected by high technological barriers to entry. As the patented biotechnologies became more accessible, in the 1990s, seven other firms entered the market. Newer entrants tend to be experienced in...
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Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture and Manufacturing
Martin, Will J. - 2016
The growth of agricultural productivity is widely believed to be low. But this study finds the productivity growth rate in agriculture to be higher than that in manufacturing, both on average and for groups of countries at different stages of development. This suggests that a large agricultural...
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