Technological Change and Economic Performance (Studies in Global Competition, V. 17)

✍ Scribed by Albert N. Link

Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 169
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This useful new book reviews the literature on technology and economic growth covering historical and theoretical developments such as: new models for measuring productivitysources of technical knowledge and technological spillovers*stock market reactions to investment in technologySuch a comprehensive survey is likely to be welcomed by students and academics involved in business economics, strategy and technology, as well as being extremely useful for public sector employees concerned with science and technology policy and planning, and private sector employees in research and development.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
Some preliminary concepts......Page 18
Early theoretical and empirical studies of economic growth......Page 26
The production function concept of technological change......Page 33
Alternative frameworks for measuring technical progress and productivity......Page 47
Trends in productivity growth......Page 55
The productivity slowdown......Page 62
Sources of technical knowledge......Page 73
The technology productivity growth relationship......Page 83
Effects of information technology on workers and economic performance......Page 92
Research partnerships and economic performance......Page 111
Concluding statement......Page 133
Definition of symbols......Page 134
Stochastic frontier estimation......Page 137
Bibliography......Page 139
Index......Page 162

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