Technological change

About: Technological change is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18901 publications have been published within this topic receiving 670787 citations. The topic is also known as: TC & technological development.

Technological progress and human development: evidence from indonesia

Abstract: This paper examined direct and indirect impact of technological progres on human development, with income disparities and povertyas moderating variables. Except data on technical progress, all data were collected from National Statistics Agency. A path model of analysis was empolyed to examine direct and indirect impacts.There were four paths to be analysed: direct impact (Path-1: P 41 ) and indirect impacts : (Path-2: P 43 x P 31 , Path-3: P 43 x P 32 x P 21 and Path-4 : P 42 x P 21 ). Four hypothesis had been tested.The results showed that impact of technological progress on human development were negative, both direct and indirect.

Science, Technology, and Innovation: Capacity Building for Sustainable Growth and Poverty Reduction

Abstract: The cases from the forum presented here capture the lessons from the science, technology, and innovation (STI) capacity building experiences of both developing and industrial countries (governments working in partnership with the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, academia, and development partners). These cases highlight ways that STI capacity building programs have enabled countries to achieve the following: (i) provide essential services, such as access to clean drinking water in rural villages and availability of affordable, reliable energy sources; (ii) exploit opportunities to produce higher-productivity, value-added agriculture crops; (iii) transition from exporting unprocessed raw materials to exporting value-added products and from low-skilled assembly operations to higher-skilled manufacturing processes; (iv) create benefits from an increasingly open trading system and increased flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) by proactively generating spillovers to the local economy; and (v) maintain competitiveness in a rapidly changing global economy marked by rapid technological change. History suggests that these challenges are daunting, but they are not impossible to overcome. Many countries have managed to build the STI capacity they needed to thrive and prosper. So that other countries may profit from lessons learned, the global forum discussed what these countries achieved and how they achieved what they did. The collective task is to help countries convert these lessons of experience into specific STI capacity building programs that can be implemented on the ground and that will have a significant, measurable impact on people's lives.

Testing unified growth theory: Technological progress and the child quantity-quality tradeoff

Abstract: A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technologicalprogress induces mass education and, in interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over theperiod 1750-2000, we test, for the first time, the validity of this core mechanism of unified growth theory. We measure a country's technological progress as patents per capita, genetic-distance weighted foreign patents, and investment in machinery, equipment and intellectual property products. Controlling for other confounders like income, mortality, thegender wage gap, indicators for child labor, compulsory schooling, and time- and country-fixed effects, we establish a strong positive impact of technological progress on investmentsin education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess the child quantity-quality substitution that can be motivated by technological change. We estimate that a 10 percent increase of enrollment in primary and secondary school isassociated with a decline of the general fertility rate by 3 to 4 percent.

Opportunities, challenges and Countermeasures for the development of China’s sports industry in the era of big data

Abstract: Opportunities faced by China's sports industry in the era of big data are as follows: the mining and analysis of big data creates more value for the sports industry; promotes the coordinated innovation and development of sports industry clusters; and accelerates the technological progress of the sports industry. This is both an opportunity and a challenge for the sports industry. At present, the following problems still exist in sports industry: lack of human resources to complete advanced data management and development in sports industry; difficulties in data storage in sports industry; inadequate depth of data mining in sports industry; difficulty in guaranteeing user information and privacy; strong competitiveness of foreign-funded enterprises to domestic enterprises. Some countermeasures are put forward, such as solving the problem of sports big data storage, improving the ability of big data processing and service, introducing advanced data processing manpower, building scientific research team, protecting personal privacy, and doing a good job of sports industry collaborative innovation research.