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The environment and directed technical change
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - 2010
dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both “carbon taxes” and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values … ; Directed Technological Change ; Innovation …
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Are technology improvement rates of knowledge industries following Moore’s law? : an empirical study of microprocessor, mobile cellular, and genome sequencing technologies
Chang, Yu Sang; Lee, Jinsoo; Jung, Yun Seok - 2012
Many of the critical technologies in knowledge economy are undergoing an exponential rate of rapid improvement. The best known roadmap to guide exponential trend of improvement has been provided by Moore’s law. This paper will update the validity of Moore’s law by applying it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568899
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Technology and human development
Ranis, Gustav - 2011
Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate further advances in human development. This paper focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355741
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Technology Upgrading, Exporting and Heterogeneous Firms
Ferguson, Shon M. - 2011
Empirical evidence shows that R&D spending is highly correlated with firm productivity, highly concentrated among large firms, and responsive to trade liberalization. This paper develops a model of product upgrading with heterogeneous firms that captures these characteristics by allowing firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129071
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Responsive Adjustment of Feed-In Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development
Grau, Thilo - 2013
simulate weekly installations of PV systems 30 kW (35% market share in 2010) based on project profitability and duration. The …
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Theories of Destructive Technologies for Industrial and Corporate Change : A Short Overview with Strategic Management Implications in Competition
Coccia, Mario - 2020
What is a disruptive innovation? This study confronts this question here by presenting different approaches, which … destructive technology as a radical innovation, based on new products and/or processes, which with high technical and/or economic …: approach of revolutionary innovation by Abernathy and Clark, disruptive technologies by Christensen, competitive substitution …
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Technology Standards - New Technical Barriers to Trade?
Gibson, Christopher S. - 2007
At a time when the high-tech industry has increasingly demanded harmonized standards, China has signaled its intention to follow a different direction. China's recent actions seeking to set its own unique standards instead of adopting international standards shifts focus to the impact on...
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Regulation Tomorrow : What Happens When Technology is Faster than the Law?
Fenwick, Mark - 2018
In an age of constant, complex and disruptive technological innovation, knowing what, when, and how to structure … promote innovation and offer better opportunities to people wanting to build a new business around a disruptive technology or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935597
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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry
Bonny, Sylvie - 2017
In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...
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