| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w20853
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 20853
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| Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930 |
| B. Zorina Khan
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| 发表日期 | 2015-01-19
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Endogenous growth models raise fundamental questions about the nature of human creativity, and the sorts of resources, skills, and knowledge inputs that shift the frontier of technology and production possibilities. Many argue that the nature of early British industrialization supports the thesis that economic advances depend on specialized scientific training or the acquisition of costly human capital. This paper examines the contributions of different types of knowledge to British industrialization, by assessing the backgrounds, education and inventive activity of the major contributors to technological advances in Britain during the crucial period between 1750 and 1930. The results indicate that scientists, engineers or technicians were not well-represented among the British great inventors until very late in the nineteenth century. Instead, important discoveries and British industrial advances were achieved by individuals who exercised commonplace skills and entrepreneurial abilities to resolve perceived industrial problems. For developing countries today, the implications are that costly investments in specialized human capital resources might be less important than incentives for creativity, flexibility, and the ability to make incremental adjustments that can transform existing technologies into inventions that are appropriate for prevailing domestic conditions. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
; Labor Supply and Demand
; History
; Macroeconomic History
; Development and Growth
; Development
; Innovation and R&
; D
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20853
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578528
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B. Zorina Khan. Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930. 2015.
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