Technology, growth and competitiveness : selected essays / Jan Fagerberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fagerberg, Jan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Economic development.

Competition, International.

Labor economics.

Economics.

Schumpeter, Joseph A., 1883-1950.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

Physical Description:

xxv, 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Technology and Growth

1 'A Technology Gap Approach to Why Growth Rates Differ', Research Policy, 16 (2-4), August 1987, 87-99 3

2 '"Modern Capitalism" in the 1970s and 1980s' with B. Verspagen, in Growth, Employment and Inflation, M. Setterfield (ed.), Macmillan Press, 1999, 113-26 16

3 'East Asian Growth: A Critical Assessment' with A. Cappelen, Forum for Development Studies, 2, 1995, 175-95 30

4 'Heading for Divergence? Regional Growth in Europe Reconsidered' with B. Verspagen, Journal of Common Market Studies, 34 (3), September 1996, 431-48 51

5 'Technology, Growth and Unemployment across European Regions' with B. Verspagen and M. Caniels, Regional Studies, 31 (5), 1997, 457-66 69

6 'Vision and Fact: A Critical Essay on the Growth Literature' in Unconventional Wisdom: Alternative Perspectives on the New Economy, J. Madrick (ed.), The Century Foundation Press, 2000, 299-320, 350-54 79

Part II Technology, Trade and Structural Change

7 'Structural Changes in International Trade: Who Gains, Who Loses?' (1987) 107

8 'The Method of Constant Market Shares Analysis Reconsidered' with G. Sollie, Applied Economics, 19, 1987, 1571-83 127

9 'Diffusion, Structural Change and Intra-Regional Trade: The Case of Nordic Countries 1961-1983' in Innovation, Industrial Knowledge and Trade, B. Johansson and C. Karlsson (eds), CERUM, Umea, 1990, 19-35 140

10 'Small Open Economies in the World Market for Electronics: The Case of the Nordic Countries' with B. Dalum and U. Jorgensen in Small Countries Facing the Technological Revolution, C. Freeman and B-A. Lundvall (eds), Pinter Publishers, 1988, 113-38 157

11 'Europe at the Crossroads: The Challenge from Innovation-Based Growth' in The Globalizing Learning Economy, D. Archibugi and B.-A. Lundvall (eds), Oxford University Press, 2001, 45-60 183

Part III Technology and Competitiveness

12 'International Competitiveness', The Economic Journal, 98, June 1988, 355-74 201

13 'User-Producer Interaction, Learning and Comparative Advantage', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 19, 1995, 243-56 221

14 'Is There a Large-Country Advantage in High-Tech?' (1995) 235

15 'Competitiveness, Scale and R&D', in Technology and International Trade, J. Fagerberg, P. Hansson, L. Lundberg and A. Melchior (eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997, 38-55 256

16 'Technology and Competitiveness', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 12 (3), 1996, 39-51 274

Appendix A formal presentation of the "technology gap" model 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840648597

OCLC:

49356037