Technological change

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Chapter 2 in The Invention of Technological Innovation, 2019, pp 36-58 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In 1932, Harry Jerome claimed that “technological change†is “an uncultivated field†(Jerome, 1932: 33). Certainly, the term “technological change†was known to the scholars of the time and used sporadically. Yet technological change was not studied or theorized about. What does the term mean? Where does it come from, and when did the study of technological change begin? Economist Edwin Mansfield attributed the origin of the interest in technological change to the studies on productivity conducted at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the 1950s (Mansfield, 1972: 478; see also Terleckyj, 1980). To be sure, the NBER produced a whole series of studies in the 1950s on economic growth and productivity - two key terms of the time - but only a couple of studies on technological change per se. Moreover, the NBER’s representation of technological change in these few studies originates from the 1930s.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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