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Bulletin de la Foire commerciale annuelle de Bruxelles
Year: 1920 Publisher: Bruxelles Maison des Ducs

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Technological change in the modern economy : basic topics and new developments
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ISBN: 1858983312 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

Risk analysis in engineering and economics
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ISBN: 1584883952 9781584883951 Year: 2003 Publisher: Boca Raton, Fla Chapman & Hall/CRC

Research and innovation policies in the new global economy : an international comparative analysis.
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ISBN: 1840647841 9781840647846 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

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The Gifts of Athena
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ISBN: 1283316900 9786613316905 1400829437 9781400829439 0691120137 9780691120133 0691094837 9780691094830 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the growth explosion in the modern West in the past two centuries was driven not just by the appearance of new technological ideas but also by the improved access to these ideas in society at large--as made possible by social networks comprising universities, publishers, professional sciences, and kindred institutions. Through a wealth of historical evidence set in clear and lively prose, he shows that changes in the intellectual and social environment and the institutional background in which knowledge was generated and disseminated brought about the Industrial Revolution, followed by sustained economic growth and continuing technological change. Mokyr draws a link between intellectual forces such as the European enlightenment and subsequent economic changes of the nineteenth century, and follows their development into the twentieth century. He further explores some of the key implications of the knowledge revolution. Among these is the rise and fall of the "factory system" as an organizing principle of modern economic organization. He analyzes the impact of this revolution on information technology and communications as well as on the public's state of health and the structure of households. By examining the social and political roots of resistance to new knowledge, Mokyr also links growth in knowledge to political economy and connects the economic history of technology to the New Institutional Economics. The Gifts of Athena provides crucial insights into a matter of fundamental concern to a range of disciplines including economics, economic history, political economy, the history of technology, and the history of science.

State policies and techno-industrial innovation
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ISBN: 0415042682 Year: 1991 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Breakthroughs [Technological ] --- Changements technologiques --- Développement technologique --- Innovaties [Technologische ] --- Innovations [Industrial ] --- Innovations [Technological ] --- Innovations industrielles --- Innovations techniques --- Innovations technologiques --- Mutations technologiques --- Nieuwigheden [Technological ] --- Nouvelle technologie --- Nouvelles techniques --- Nouvelles technologies --- Politique de la technologie --- Politique scientifique et technique --- Politique technologique --- Progrès technique --- Staat en technologie --- State and technology --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Technological innovations --- Technologie -- Politique gouvernementale --- Technologie -- Regeringspolitiek --- Technologie en Staat --- Technologie et État --- Technologies nouvelles --- Technologische innovaties --- Technologische nieuwigheden --- Technology -- Government policy --- Technology and state --- État et technologie --- Innovations --- 338.064 --- Industriebeleid 338.45:338.23 --- Industrie 338.45 --- Technology --- Endowment of research --- Science and state --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--?.064 --- Government policy --- Technological innovations. --- Technology and state. --- 338.064 Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--?.064

Innovation and Inequality
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ISBN: 9780691128306 0691128308 9786612129612 1282129619 140082477X 9781400824779 9781282129610 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Karl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would increasingly devalue and impoverish workers, but other economists thought the opposite, that it would lead to increased wages and living standards--and the economists were right. Yet in the last three decades, the market economy has been jeopardized by a worrying phenomenon: a rise in wage inequality that has left a substantial portion of the workforce worse off despite the continuing productivity growth enjoyed by the economy. Innovation and Inequality examines why. Studies have firmly established a link between this worrying trend and technical change, in particular the rise of new information technologies. In Innovation and Inequality, Gilles Saint-Paul provides a synthetic theoretical analysis of the most important mechanisms by which technical progress and innovation affect the distribution of income. He discusses the conditions under which skill-biased technical change may reduce the wages of the least skilled, and how improvements in information technology allow "superstars" to increase the scale of their activity at the expense of less talented workers. He shows how the structure of demand changes as the economy becomes wealthier, in ways that may potentially harm the poorest segments of the workforce and economy. An essential text for graduate students and an indispensable resource for researchers, Innovation and Inequality reveals how different categories of workers gain or lose from innovation, and how that gain or loss crucially depends on the nature of the innovation.

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Employees --- Labor supply --- Technological innovations. --- Income distribution. --- Personnel, Effets des innovations sur le --- Marché du travail --- Innovations --- Revenu --- Effect of technological innovations on. --- Effets des innovations sur --- Répartition --- Technological innovations --- Income distribution --- Effect of technological innovations on --- Employees - Effect of technological innovations on. --- Employees. --- Labor supply - Effect of technological innovations on. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- 332.621.3 --- 338.043 --- AA / International- internationaal --- -Labor supply --- -Technological innovations --- 338.064 --- Distribution of income --- Income inequality --- Inequality of income --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Disposable income --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Labor force --- Labor force participation --- Labor pool --- Work force --- Workforce --- Labor market --- Human capital --- Labor mobility --- Manpower --- Manpower policy --- Laborers --- Personnel --- Workers --- Persons --- Industrial relations --- Personnel management --- Technologische werkloosheid. Werkgelegenheid en informatica. --- Technologische vooruitgang. Automatisering. Computers. Werkgelegenheid en informatica. --- Marché du travail --- Répartition --- Technological unemployment --- Technologische werkloosheid. Werkgelegenheid en informatica --- Technologische vooruitgang. Automatisering. Computers. Werkgelegenheid en informatica --- E-books --- Employees - Effect of technological innovations on --- Labor supply - Effect of technological innovations on

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