The relationship of scientific knowledge development to technological development is widely recognized as one of the most important and complex aspects of technological evolution. This paper adds to our understanding of the relationship through use of a more rigorous structure for differentiating among technologies based upon technological domains (defined as consisting of the artifacts over ti...

I use U.S. manufacturing industry data to estimate a system of three equations implied by a model of R&D-induced growth in steady state. These three equations relate R&D intensity to patenting, patenting to technological progress, and technological progress to economic growth. In each case, I find evidence of positive impact. Thus, I reject the null hypothesis that growth is not induced by R&D ...

We construct a general equilibrium version of the Krusell et al. Econometrica 68, 1029, 2000 model with capital–skill complementarity. We assume several sources of growth simultaneously: exogenous growth of skilled and unskilled labour, equipment-specific technological progress, skilled and unskilled labouraugmenting technological progress and Hicks-neutral technological progress. We derive res...

This paper develops a uni ̄ed growth model that captures the historical evolution of population, technology, and output. It encompasses the endogenous transition between three regimes that have characterized economic development. The economy evolves from a Malthusian regime, where technological progress is slow and population growth prevents any sustained rise in income per capita, into a Post-M...

The paper explores firstly the impact of technological change on trade growth at the country level, using trade statistics and statistics on patenting activity in the US, across 20 countries for 17 manufacturing sectors. Secondly, using structural decomposition analysis, the paper examines statistically, whether the degree to which countries get access to sectors with above average growth in te...

THE CRITICAL role played by new technology – its adaptation and diffusion – in the growth process of a developing economy is now widely accepted. The importance accorded to technological progress is of course not limited to LDCs only. Modern growth theory stresses that it is the technological application of labour and capital and not merely their presence which crucially influences the rate of ...

In a critique of my paper “Technological Incompatibility, Endogenous Switching Costs and Lockin”, Haucap (2003) argues that its applicability for policy purposes is limited by its reliance on the assumptions of no market growth and of the firms’ ability to commit to technological compatibility. In this note, I show that the results in the paper still hold with market growth and I argue that tec...

This paper explores the role of imports as a mechanism of transmission of international technological spillovers and the significance of these for the growth and economic convergence of the OECD countries. For this purpose a growth model is estimated that includes amongst its determinants a measure of the stock of technological knowledge. The results reveal first that international technologica...

Economic growth is best understood as a combination of high and low growth regimes. This paper deals with the sources of growth around growth regimes change. To that end the derivation of structural breaks in growth rates series is combined with nonparametric growth accounting, which allows the decomposition of productivity changes into technological progress and efficiency changes. Even medium...