Unemployment and Technical Innovation

by Christopher Freeman

Author	: Christopher Freeman
Publisher	: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
Total Pages	: 240
Release	: 1982
Genre	: Economic development
ISBN	:

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Study on interrelations among unemployment, innovations, business cycles and economic development - discusses the theoretical background, clustering of inventions and innovations (partic. Electronics industry), historical and current trends (1870-1980) and long term fluctuations in research and development, investment, economic growth, economic structure and employment creation, etc.; stresses the need for well-conceived economic policies to simultaneously promote technological change and combat unemployment and inflation. Graphs and references.

The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth

by Michael J Andrews

Author	: Michael J Andrews
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages	: 633
Release	: 2022-03-17
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 022681078X

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"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations among experts in government and economic development. But while these areas on continue to attract public and private investments, many measurements of their resulting economic growth-including productivity growth and business dynamism-have remained modest. Why this difference? Because not all business sectors are the same, and the transformative gains of some industries have been offset by stagnation or contraction in others. Accordingly, a nuanced understanding of the economy requires a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, the latest entry in the NBER conference series, seeks to codify these answers. The editors leverage industry studies to identify specific examples of productivity improvements enabled by innovation and entrepreneurship, including those from new production technologies, increased competition, new organizational forms, and other means. Taken together, the volume illuminates whether the contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic growth is likely to be concentrated, be it selected sectors or more broadly"--

The Long-Wave Debate

by Tibor Vasko

Author	: Tibor Vasko
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages	: 439
Release	: 2013-03-09
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 3662103516

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The proceedings reflect the state-of-the-art of long-term fluctuations in economic growth as well as discussing promising areas of research in this field. The unique combination of participants from East and West (including the People's Republic of China) is a guarantee for wide coverage and unusual insights. The problems treated range from the identification of long-term fluctuations in developing and developed countries in both East and West to their relationship to important economic variables (profit, prices, money supply). Particular attention is focused on structural changes and the role of technological development in the light of the long-term fluctuation concept. It is interesting to follow the treatment of this issue by scientists with different orientations. The role of financial and monetary variables is also analyzed by leading researchers in the field.

Technology and Employment

by Richard Michael Cyert

Author	: Richard Michael Cyert
Publisher	: Washington, D.C. (2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington 20418) : National Academy Press
Total Pages	: 248
Release	: 1987
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 9780309037822

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This report addresses a number of issues that have surfaced in the debates over the impact of technological change on employment. These issues include the effects of technological change on levels of employment and unemployment within the economy; on the displacement of workers in specific industries or sectors of the economy; on skill requirements; on the welfare of women, minorities, and labor force entrants in a technologically transformed economy; and on the organization of the firm and the workplace. It concludes that technological change will contribute significantly to growth in employment opportunities and wages, although workers in specific occupations and industries may have to move among jobs and careers. Recommends initiatives and options to assist workers in making such transitions. ISBN 0-309-03744-1 (pbk.).

Making the Global Economy Work for Everyone

by Marco Magnani

Author	: Marco Magnani
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Total Pages	: 219
Release	: 2022-01-24
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 3030920844

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The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of globalisation, exposed the fragility of the current growth model, and accelerated the ongoing tech revolution. This book is an in-depth analysis of these weaknesses and fragilities in the context of sustainability. Economist Marco Magnani suggests the possibility of pursuing a more balanced, environmentally and socially sustainable growth while defusing today’s apocalyptic alarmism about climate change, energy and demographic constraints, and the future of work. To make the global economy work for everyone.

The Employment Impact of Innovation

by Mario Pianta

Author	: Mario Pianta
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 287
Release	: 2003-09-01
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 1134629265

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The diffusion of information and communication technologies is rapidly changing the structure of advanced economies, raising new problems of technological unemployment. The view that market forces can easily counterbalance the labour-saving impact of innovation is contrasted in this book with empirical findings on aggregate compensation effects and on the consequences of product, process and organizational innovation in industries and services. After examining several policy aspects, new employment-friendly economic and innovation policies are proposed.

Innovation + Equality

by Joshua Gans

Author	: Joshua Gans
Publisher	: MIT Press
Total Pages	: 187
Release	: 2019-10-29
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 026204322X

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How to get more innovation and more equality. Is economic inequality the price we pay for innovation? The amazing technological advances of the last two decades—in such areas as artificial intelligence, genetics, and materials—have benefited society collectively and rewarded innovators handsomely: we get cool smartphones and technology moguls become billionaires. This contributes to a growing wealth gap; in the United States; the wealth controlled by the top 0.1 percent of households equals that of the bottom ninety percent. Is this the inevitable cost of an innovation-driven economy? Economist Joshua Gans and policy maker Andrew Leigh make the case that pursuing innovation does not mean giving up on equality—precisely the opposite. In this book, they outline ways that society can become both more entrepreneurial and more egalitarian. All innovation entails uncertainty; there's no way to predict which new technologies will catch on. Therefore, Gans and Leigh argue, rather than betting on the future of particular professions, we should consider policies that embrace uncertainty and protect people from unfavorable outcomes. To this end, they suggest policies that promote both innovation and equality. If we encourage innovation in the right way, our future can look more like the cheerful techno-utopia of Star Trek than the dark techno-dystopia of The Terminator.

Technological Innovation and Economic Performance

by Benn Steil

Author	: Benn Steil
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Total Pages	: 492
Release	: 2002-02-03
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 9780691090917

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Commissioned and brought tohgether for the research project by the world-renowned Council on Foreign Relations, the authors have produced an important compendia in applied economics.

Innovation and Public Policy

by Austan Goolsbee

Author	: Austan Goolsbee
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages	: 259
Release	: 2022-03-25
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 022680545X

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A calculation of the social returns to innovation /Benjamin F. Jones and Lawrence H. Summers --Innovation and human capital policy /John Van Reenen --Immigration policy levers for US innovation and start-ups /Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr --Scientific grant funding /Pierre Azoulay and Danielle Li --Tax policy for innovation /Bronwyn H. Hall --Taxation and innovation: what do we know? /Ufuk Akcigit and Stefanie Stantcheva --Government incentives for entrepreneurship /Josh Lerner.