General Purpose Technologies

By Boyan Jovanovic, Peter L. Rousseau. 2005

445 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Economics & Operations Research

Citations in the corpus

• Measuring the Algorithmic Efficiency of Neural Networks (2020, neutral): “From the start of information technolology era it was about 30 years before personal computers were in more than half of US homes [Jovanovic & Rousseau, 2005] (similar timeline for personal computers).”
• Technological Growth and Asset Pricing (2012, unknown): “16 Jovanovic and Rousseau (2005) document lower valuations for firms that had little to benefit from the new technologies.”
• The Employment and Wage Impact of Broadband Deployment in Canada (2015, unknown): “The Internet is classified as a General Purpose Technology (Jovanovic and Rousseau, 2005; Lipsey et al., 2005), the adoption and productivity benefits of which vary across regions or industries (Ristuccia and Solomou, 2014).”
• Assessing the nature of nanotechnology: can we uncover an emerging general purpose technology? (2008, unknown): “Jovanovic and Rousseau (2005) propose new ways to use historical evidence to test for the existence of ‘‘scope for improvement,’’ ‘‘wide range of use,’’ and the likelihood of spawning complementary innovations.”