Barriers to Technology Adoption, International R&D Spillovers and Growth

Barriers to Technology Adoption and Entry∗

A key feature of recent work on barriers to technology adoption is the assumption that monopoly rights of insiders are limited by the ability of industry outsiders to enter. This paper endogenizes the decision of a government to provide barriers to technology adoption alone or in combination with barriers to entry of outsiders. Using a political economy model, we find that a government provides...

Improving Learnability: Lowering Barriers to Technology Adoption

Interactive computer technologies have the potential to support many older adults in their daily lives. However, older adults often find it difficult to learn to use many existing technologies. This paper describes our work on improving the learnability of computer technology – specifically mobile devices – for older adults. We present our investigation of three complementary design approaches ...

Technology adoption in health care: International barriers and opportunities to telemedicine.

Entry Barriers, Competition, and Technology Adoption

There are large differences in income per capita across countries. Growth accounting finds that a large part of the differences comes from the differences in total factor productivity (TFP). This paper explores whether barrier to entry is an important factor for the cross-country differences in TFP. The paper develops a new model to link entry barriers and technology adoption. In the model, hig...

Multinational growth, innovation strategies and technology spillovers

It will be argued that the nature and characteristics of international production are changing and new opportunities for technological spillovers to host economies are associated to this change. However the available evidence on the actual impact of the ongoing globalisation is shaky and contradictory. This seems to have led to a sort of deadlock in the current debate, which is much too often b...