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Distance to the pre-industrial technological frontier and economic development
Journal of Economic Growth ( IF 3.917 ) Pub Date : 2018-03-14 , DOI: 10.1007/s10887-018-9154-6
Ömer Özak

This research explores the effects of distance to the pre-industrial technological frontiers on comparative economic development in the course of human history. It establishes theoretically and empirically that distance to the frontier had a persistent non-monotonic effect on a country’s pre-industrial economic development. In particular, advancing a novel measure of the travel time to the technological frontiers, the analysis establishes a robust persistent U-shaped relation between distance to the frontier and pre-industrial economic development across countries. Moreover, it demonstrates that countries, which throughout the last two millennia were relatively more distant from these frontiers, have higher contemporary levels of innovation and entrepreneurial activity, suggesting that distance from the frontier may have fostered the emergence of a culture conducive to innovation, knowledge creation, and entrepreneurship.

中文翻译:

距工业化前技术前沿与经济发展的距离

这项研究探讨了人类历史过程中距工业前技术前沿的距离对比较经济发展的影响。它从理论和经验上都证明,与边界的距离对一个国家的工业化前经济发展具有持续的非单调影响。尤其是,该分析提出了一种新颖的方法来衡量到达技术边界的时间,从而在各国之间建立了到边界的距离与工业化前经济发展之间的稳固的U型关系。此外,它表明,在过去两千年中与这些领域相对较远的国家,其当代的创新和企业家活动水平较高,
更新日期:2018-03-14
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