General Purpose Technologies

By T. Bresnahan. 2010

116 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Media Technology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1c137e7492f7849b697ea03dd0917543a458c918

Citations in the corpus

• Could Machine Learning Be a General Purpose Technology? A Comparison of Emerging Technologies Using Data from Online Job Postings (2022, unknown): “Bresnahan (2010) describes how his and Trajtenberg’s independent prior research on accounting and CT scans led them to appreciate the importance of complementary innovation in application sectors and motivated the GPT research.”
• Engineering Value: The Returns to Technological Talent and Investments in Artificial Intelligence (2019, unknown): “As a new kind of software, however, deep learning and AI more broadly is a general purpose technology (Bresnahan and Trajtenberg 1995; Bresnahan 2010).”
• General Sources of General Purpose Technologies in Complex Societies: Theory of Global Leadership-Driven Innovation, Warfare and Human Development (2015, unknown): “[20,21,119].”