Research Catalog

Title

The Implications of knowledge-based growth for micro-economic policies / general editor, Peter Howitt.

Publication

Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Howitt, Peter, 1946-
• Canada. Industry Canada.

Description

xiv, 491 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Industry Canada research series, 1188-0988 ; 6

Uniform Title

Industry Canada research series ; 6.

Subject

• Economic development > Congresses
• Information technology > Canada > Congresses
• Information theory in economics > Congresses
• Microeconomics > Canada
• Développement économique > Congrès
• Information, Théorie de l', en économie politique > Congrès
• Micro-économie > Congrès
• Technologie de l'information > Canada > Congrès
• Canada > Economic policy > Congresses
• Canada > Economic conditions > 1991- > Congresses
• Canada > Congrès
• Canada > Congrès. > 1991-

Note

• Conference held in Ottawa on March 30-31, 1995.
• Published also in French under the title: La croissance fondée sur le savoir et son incidence sur les politiques microéconomiques.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Peter Howitt -- 1. On Some Problems in Measuring Knowledge-Based Growth / Peter Howitt -- Comment / Thomas K. Rymes -- 2. A Quantitative Assessment of High-Knowledge Industries Versus Low-Knowledge Industries / Frank C. Lee and Handan Has -- Comment / Donald G. McFetridge -- 3. Human Capital Development and Innovation: A Sectoral Analysis / John R. Baldwin and Joanne Johnson -- Comment / Lewis Alexander -- 4. Evidence and Debate on Economic Integration and Economic Growth / Richard G. Harris -- Comment / James A. Brander -- 5. Interprovincial Barriers to Trade and Endogenous Growth Considerations / John Whalley -- Comment / Robin Boadway -- 6. Intellectual Property and Endogenous Growth / A. L. Keith Acheson and Donald G. McFetridge -- Comment / Jock Langford -- 7. Economic and Social Implications of a Knowledge-Based Society / Luc Soete -- 8. A Structuralist View of Innovation Policy / Richard G. Lipsey and Ken Carlaw -- Comment / Gilles Paquet --
• 9. Local Systems of Innovation: In Search of an Enabling Strategy / Zoltan Acs, John de la Mothe and Gilles Paquet -- Comment / John Burbidge -- 10. The Impact of Telecommunications Infrastructure on Economic Development / Lars-Hendrik Roller and Leonard Waverman -- Comment / David Alan Aschauer -- 11. The Canadian Communication Equipment Industry as a Source of R&D Spillovers and Productivity Growth / Jeffrey I. Bernstein -- Comment / Michael Denny -- 12. The Information Highway and the Economy / Steven Globerman -- Comment / Roger Miller -- 13. Conference Report / John F. Helliwell.

ISBN

1895176786

LCCN

96183195

OCLC

ocm34990439

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries