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system of social order. Since its emergence in the mid-20th century, semiconductor technology in many ways exemplifies this … reality. Yet the rapid advancement of semiconductor technology has also been accompanied by social conflict. The history of … the technology is as much a story of frequent global chip ‘shortages’ and geopolitical disputes as it is one of …
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We study the implications of information technology (IT) in banking for financial stability, using data on US banks' IT …
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We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the … the tool of stochastic frontier analysis, we find that both institutions and technology were important for the success of …
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Few will argue with the claim that shortages are socially harmful. Shortages, by definition, imply a lack of something – not enough stuff to go around. A shortage of food implies hunger; a shortage of electricity implies darkness. But are shortages harmful to everyone equally? And if they are...
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technology system of the Brazilian agricultural sector. Thus, he contributed to tropical agriculture development, which expanded …
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This chapter examines the political economy of biopharmaceutical innovation, focusing primarily on vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic. This analysis aims to make visible the deep entanglements that entrench an extractive and dysfunctional innovation ecosystem, calcifying inequities in global...
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The paper reviews theories of information technology adoption and organizational form and applies them to an empirical …. We argue that these economies have gone through two major structural changes-one concerning new technology and another … other. We test the impact of firm size, integration, and ownership on the extent of new information technology adoption …
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Similar to economic growth, the process of technology diffusion may well be approximated by easily distinguishable … work is a trial conceptualization of the concepts related to the technology diffusion process, namely – 'technological take … forcing the transition from condition of stagnation into dynamic and self-sustaining growth (diffusion) of new technology …
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This paper reviews the literature on the economics of intellectual property rights (IPR), with a particular focus on the main industrial property rights of patents and trade marks. Intellectual property rights arise from the legal protection accorded to certain inventions or creations. We begin...
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal datasetconsisting of 532 top...
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