Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth

By R. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw, Cliff T. Bekar. 2006

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Subfields: Economics & Operations Research, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Citations in the corpus

• GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (2023, background): “(Bresnahan and Trajtenberg, 1995; Lipsey et al., 2005).”
• A low carbon industrial revolution? Insights and challenges from past technological and economic transformations (2012, background): “…2009; Wrigley, 2010; Crafts, 2010a), the relations between long-term technological, institutional and economic changes (Freeman and Perez, 1988; Freeman and Louca, 2001) and the role of so-called ‘general purpose technologies’ in long-term economic growth (Helpman, 1998; Lipsey et al., 1998, 2005).”
• Impact of public and private research funding on scientific production: The case of nanotechnology (2012, background): “Lipsey et al. (2005) and Youtie et al. (2008) indeed suggest that nanotechnology may be the next general purpose technology, i.e. the next engine of growth of the 21st century.”
• Energy, Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: Five Propositions (2010, background): “But backfire seems more likely to occur over the long-term following improvements in the energy efficiency of ―general-purpose technologies‖ such as steam turbines, lighting, motor vehicles and computers—particularly when these are used by producers and when the improvements occur at an early stage ”
• BEYOND THE HYPE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY/KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY (2006, unknown): “Lipsey et al. (2005) argue that the evolution of technological knowledge has driven economic growth and social transformation since at least the Neolithic agricultural revolution.”
• Jevons’ Paradox revisited: The evidence for backfire from improved energy efficiency (2009, background): “General-purpose technologies (GPTs) have a wide scope for improvement and elaboration, are applicable across a broad range of uses, have potential for use in a wide variety of products and processes and have strong complementarities with existing or potential new technologies (Lipsey et al., 2005).”
• General Sources of General Purpose Technologies in Complex Societies: Theory of Global Leadership-Driven Innovation, Warfare and Human Development (2015, unknown): “also [20,63,97,146,181,186].”
• A coevolutionary framework for analysing a transition to a sustainable low carbon economy (2011, background): “Structuralist-evolutionary approaches have examined the economic importance of general purpose technologies, such as steam engine, electricity and information technology, that eventually come to be widely used, to have many uses, and to have many spillover effects (Lipsey et al., 2005).”