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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Technological progress"”.
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A functional approach for studying technological progress : extension to wireless telecommunications technology
This thesis attempts to study the technological progress of wireless technology and the wireless industry throughout history, using high-level, non-device specific performance metrics. Such metrics are developed by following the broad functional category approach. The analysis performed is both …
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Technological Progress and Economic Development: Are Foreign Direct Investment and Income Inequality Relevant?
Contains fulltext : 26960_techprane.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Measuring Productivity and Technological Progress: Development of a Constructive Method Based on Classical Economics and Input-Output Tables
… productivity, sectoral productivity, and technological progress for a selected sample of Italian regions. Besides these indices, two different versions of the so-called technological frontier were calculated. The contemporary frontiers that are constructed from all the production …
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Technological progress and environmental regulation as drivers of productivity growth : evidence from the U.S. coal industry, 1972-1994
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology and Policy Program, 1996.
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Relative Wages and Endogenous Growth
Technological progress, human capital, and tax policies play an important role in growth. Recent models of endogenous growth based on technological progress predict that high technological progress and growth are associated with a high relative supply of skilled workers who earn constant or …
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Essays in financial economics
… model to study jointly (i) the pace of technological progress and (ii) asset pricing properties of investment in innovation. Risk is a key characteristic that links the two together. Both empirically and in my theory innovation activity is associated with elevated levels of idiosyncratic …
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Technology Performance Curves to Inform Government and Private Investment
Forecasts of technological progress are used to inform decisions in the public and private sectors that shape the modern technology landscape on a global scale. Technology performance curves are the quantitative, model-based representations of technological change employed in industrial, economic, …
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Smart Contracts: A South African Perspective. A legal analysis of the possibilities and challenges posed to the recognition and enforcement of smart contracts under the South African law of contract
… dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the technological progress which precipitated it, traditional modes of commercial transactions have been disrupted by the options available to actors within the marketplace when executing contracts of a commercial nature
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Information technology policy : first steps for the new South Africa
… and at the same time enhance economic and technological progress and create social improvement in the country? These and many other fundamental questions are the basis for this investigation. The starting point of this research was to compare South African IT to that in other countries; …
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A space to complement an accelerating species : a space of slower time, optimism, and contemplation
… the next 100 years, we will make 20,000 years of technological progress at year 2000 rates. In other words, that will be the equivalent of 1000 20th centuries in 100 years. This is due to the explosive nature of exponential growth. He also pinpoints an instant when the so-called technological …
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"The Length of Our Vision": Thoreau, Berry, and Sustainability
… I briefly investigate the history of the idea of progress, focusing especially on our culture's fascination with and embrace of technological progress. Following this investigation, I examine two works that offer critiques of progress: Thoreau's classic text, Walden, and Wendell Berry's, The …
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Exhaustible resources and technological change in the United States agriculture, 1940-1969
Technological progress has played an important role in American agriculture since the beginning of World War II. The rapid rate of growth of population and industrialization in the U.S. has to be met by a rapid rate of growth of food and fiber. Failure to achieve rapid growth in the agricultural …
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Power and Progress in Japan: The Past, Present, and Future of Japan as a Tech Powerhouse
This paper analyzes Japan’s economic and technological history since the Meiji Restoration through the framework of Power and Progress proposed by Acemoglu and Johnson (2023), focusing on the concepts of direction of technology and productivity bandwagon. A historical review reveals that …
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The Effects of Fixed Factors of Production in Optimal Growth Models
… terminal time for the model with exogenous technological progress, however, because to do so involves solving an unsolvable series of nonlinear differential equations.
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Effects of hardware and soft features on the performance evolution of low-carbon technologies
… and non-hardware ('soft') innovations in technological progress remains largely unanswered despite the societal importance of improved technology. Multiple low-carbon technologies exhibit rising shares of soft costs, and understanding their determinants is thus critical to support climate …
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Essays on Economic *Growth
… the link between human capital accumulation and technological progress. Human capital accumulation in the spirit of Lucas (1988) is introduced into the R&D-based model of Romer (1990). The steady-state solution for the decentralized economy follows a growth-accounting exercise which provides …
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Toward the computational transformation of legal theory and practice
… synchronize legal frameworks with contemporary technological progress by exploring adaptive and forward-looking governance approaches.
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Essays on innovation, leadership, and growth
… investigate a possibly fundamental aspect of technological progress. If knowledge accumulates as technology progresses, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational burden, forcing them to spend longer periods in education and/or become increasingly specialized. …
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Issues In Multilingual Typesetting: A Cases Study Across Chinese, Korean, Japanese, And English Texts
… It highlights how cultural, social, and technological factors influence typesetting, emphasizing the need for typographers to understand linguistic and cultural nuances. Despite technological progress simplifying some aspects, issues like script integrity, readability, and cultural …
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