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Ceris-CNR Working paper 05/2004
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Analisi della tecnologia e approcci alla sua misurazione |
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Mario Coccia |
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The technological innovation, nowadays, is one of the most important determinant
for increasing the wealth of the nations. Souder and Shrivastrava said “we
can’t begin to make decisions about technology until we understand it. And we
can’t begin to really understand it until we can measure it”. For this
reason within the economics a new branch called Technometrics is born: it is
a new theoretical framework for the conception and measurement of technological
change with important policy implications (Sahal, 1985). The aim of
this paper is, after introducing the concepts of technological innovation as
used by the economists during the nineteenth and twentieth-century, to show the
historical evolution of the several approaches used to measure and evaluate the
technology and technology change from 1930 to 2004. A discussion of these
approaches shows the methodological difficulties and their potentials.
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Keywords: Technometrics, Technology, Technological Change, Patterns of technological innovation, history of economic thought, systemic approach, innovation diffusion |
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JEL Classification: B11, B12, B20, B41, O30
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