Conventional learning curves relating unit cost to measures of production experience are estimated for 221 specialty … relationship between unit cost and measures of production experience were subject to specific initiatives, particularly process R …...D. The R...D was not, however, generally motivated or informed, by production experience. However, cumulative past output …

The incorporation of experience curves has enhanced the treatment of technological change in models used to evaluate … the cost of climate and energy policies. However, the set of activities that experience curves are assumed to capture is … much broader than the set that can be characterized by learning-by-doing, the primary connection between experience curves …