Empirical Research on Network Size and Technological Progress

Abstract Corporate foresight in the Czech Republic has been still a rather undiscovered and unmapped subject. This drawback is at least partly reduced by this article presenting results of a pioneer empirical research among Czech companies. Results of the research indicate that the level of utilization of foresight among Czech companies is low; on the other hand, the results suggest existence of a latent demand for foresight as a tool for increasing the capacities and capabilities to innovate. Innovation activities in companies are at the same time one of the most significant way to deal with contemporary economic and social development, characterized by a rapid technological progress and accelerating pace of change.

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How public policies have shaped the technological progress in the Brazilian aeronautics industry: Embraer case

Science and Public Policy ◽

10.1093/scipol/scz030 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 46 (6) ◽

pp. 787-804 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Josiane de Araújo Francelino ◽

Ligia Maria Soto Urbina ◽

André Tosi Furtado ◽

Milton de Freitas Chagas

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Technological Progress ◽

Public Procurement ◽

Public Policies ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Civil Aviation ◽

Technological Capabilities ◽

Defense Acquisition

Abstract Despite the growing interest in Embraer, the Brazilian world leading aircraft manufacturers, little empirical research exists on the role of Public Procurement for Innovation (PPI), in Brazil, on the shaping of technological capabilities of the aeronautics industry. To capture those impacts, developing a methodological approach is necessary. Thus, the objective of this article is to evaluate the impacts of PPI on Embraer over the last forty years, developing a model for categorizing and analyzing the general technological aspects of those impacts, implemented through Brazilian Defense Acquisition Programs. The results suggest that the Brazilian Aeronautical Policy led to the development of very specific technical capabilities in Embraer, which allowed its evolution in civil aviation.

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Empirical Research on Technological Progress and Income Gap

2020 The 4th International Conference on Business and Information Management ◽

10.1145/3418653.3418669 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Xinyi Wang

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Technological Progress ◽

Income Gap

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A perspective on the evolution of evolutionary economics

Industrial and Corporate Change ◽

10.1093/icc/dtaa045 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Richard R Nelson

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Dynamic Process ◽

Technological Progress ◽

Evolutionary Economics ◽

Considerable Extent ◽

Evolutionary Perspective ◽

And Behavior ◽

Technological Opportunities ◽

The Way

Abstract Modern evolutionary economics has come a long way from its beginnings in the writings of a few economists in the 1970s and 1980s. To a considerable extent, its evolution has been the result of the findings of empirical research, much but not all of it motivated by an explicit or implicit evolutionary perspective, which has fed back to modify and enrich the way evolutionary economists view the way modern economies work. This article focuses on developments that have broadened and sharpened the evolutionary perspective on the capabilities and behavior of firms, the processes and institutions involved in technological progress, and competition and dynamics in industries where technological opportunities are expanding. In the course of these developments, the conception of what it means to propose that a dynamic process is evolutionary has evolved. The article considers, as well, where evolutionary economics might be going from where it is now.

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