Learning from Experience and Learning from Others: An Exploration of Learning and Spillovers in Wartime Shipbuilding

By Rebecca Thornton, Peter Thompson. 2001

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Learning-By-Doing, Organizational Forgetting, and Industry Dynamics (2007, background): “…Hirsch 1952, DeJong 1957, Alchian 1963, Levy 1965, Kilbridge 1962, Hirschmann 1964, Preston & Keachie 1964, Baloff 1971, Dudley 1972, Zimmerman 1982, Lieberman 1984, Gruber 1992, Irwin & Klenow 1994, Jarmin 1994, Pisano 1994, Bohn 1995, Hatch & Mowery 1998, Thompson 2001, Thornton & Thompson 2001).”
The Transition to Endogenous Technical Change in Climate-Economy Models: A Technical Overview to the Innovation Modeling Comparison Project (2006, background): “Recent contributions to this literature consider the learning processes that lead to experience curves e.g. Thornton and Thompson (2001) for shipbuilding.”
A review of uncertainties in technology experience curves (2012, background): “…(Arrow, 1962; Dutton and Thomas, 1984; Yelle, 1979), including manufacturing (Argote and Epple, 1990), ship production (Bell and Scott-Kemmis, 1990; Thornton and Thompson, 2001), consumer products (Bass, 1980), energy supply technologies (IEA/OECD, 2000; McDonald and Schrattenholzer, 2001; Neij,…”