scholarly journals Political Entrepreneurialism: Reflections of a Civil Servant on the Role of Political Institutions in Technology Innovation and Diffusion in Kenya

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elijah Bitange Ndemo
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Innovation And Diffusion ◽  
And Diffusion

scholarly journals The Global Diffusion of Ideas

Econometrica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Buera ◽  
Ezra Oberfield
Keyword(s):  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
Scale Parameters ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Asymmetric Countries ◽  
Innovation And Diffusion ◽  
Post War ◽  
And Diffusion

We provide a tractable, quantitatively‐oriented theory of innovation and technology diffusion to explore the role of international trade in the process of development. We model innovation and diffusion as a process involving the combination of new ideas with insights from other industries or countries. We provide conditions under which each country's equilibrium frontier of knowledge converges to a Fréchet distribution, and derive a system of differential equations describing the evolution of the scale parameters of these distributions, that is, countries' stocks of knowledge. The model remains tractable with many asymmetric countries and generates a rich set of predictions about how the level and composition of trade affect countries' frontiers of knowledge. We use the framework to quantify the contribution of bilateral trade costs to long‐run changes in TFP and individual post‐war growth miracles. For our preferred calibration, we find that both gains from trade and the fraction of variation of TFP growth accounted for by changes in trade more than double relative to a model without diffusion.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION & DIFFUSION SYSTEM AND INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION BETWEEN TAIWAN AND MAINLAND CHINA

2003 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 443-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHANG-YUNG LIU ◽  
JIE YANG
Keyword(s):  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Diffusion System ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Technological Capabilities ◽  
Industrial Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Diffusion ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
And Diffusion

Backwardness at technological capabilities is a common problem for all developing regions. Among catching-up economies in the developing world, Taiwan and Mainland China have achieved remarkably rapid growth in the science and technology development. More interestingly, they have done so by adopting distinctly different model of innovation and diffusion strategy. In this study, we compare the performance of industrial innovation between Mainland China and Taiwan by using the framework of national technological capabilities which includes technology push, market pull, S&T and industrial policies, factor market, innovation and diffusion system. By considering the close relationship across the Taiwan Strait, implications of cooperation on technology innovation and high-tech industry development for these two regions are also explored.

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