Progress and Co-invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers

By T. Bresnahan, Shane M. Greenstein, David Brownstone, K. Flamm. 2008

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GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (2023, background): “The realization of general purpose technologies’ full potential requires extensive co-invention (Bresnahan and Trajtenberg, 1995; Bresnahan et al., 1996, 2002; Lipsey et al., 2005; Dixon et al., 2021), a costly and time-consuming process involving the discovery of new business procedures (David,…”
Could Machine Learning Be a General Purpose Technology? A Comparison of Emerging Technologies Using Data from Online Job Postings (2022, background): “This “co-invention” typically involves the use of third-party service providers (Attewell 1992; Bresnahan and Greenstein 1996).”
Has the Internet Fostered Inclusive Innovation in the Developing World (2016, background): “However, complementary investments, including in improving management capacities, are often critical to maximise benefits from the Internet (Black and Lynch, 2001, 2004; Bloom et al., 2012; Bresnahan et al., 1996, 2002; Brynjolffson and Hitt, 2000).”
AI Adoption and System-Wide Change (2021, background): “3 Each decision results in the choice of an action, a k ∈ A k , 1 One interpretation of investment in communication within an organisation is that this is a co-invention that enables AI; see Bresnahan and Greenstein (1996); Bresnahan et al. (2002); Aral et al. (2012); and Dranove et al. (2014).”
Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation: Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century (2021, unknown): “…develop—although contemporary and subsequent work has debated whether the obstacles to diffusion are organizational or technological (David 1990, Bresnahan and Greenstein 1996, Goldfarb 2005).4 Through the AT&T example, we contend they are part and parcel of the same problem: making…”