Endogenous Innovation Waves and Economic Growth

Arbeitspapier

We propose a simple model where large innovation waves arise from the endogenous propagation of information around sectors. Innovators of each sector invest in internal R&D and in local search for information. We show that depending on the structural parameters of the single sectors, some of the R&D sectors will engage in local search while others will not. Through localised search for information, technology adopted in certain sectors can be adopted also in other sectors, leading to a large technological correlation, and eventually to long ranged innovation waves. We characterise the endogenous balanced growth path of the economy, and the short run fluctuations around it. The model predicts a linear, positive relationship between the short run fluctuations and the long run growth rate. We test this latter relationship and find that we cannot reject the predictions of the model.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 446

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Andergassen, Rainer ; Nardini, Franco
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
• (wo): Bologna
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4850
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/159287
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ