Blockchain as a General-Purpose Technology: Patentometric Evidence of Science, Technologies, and Actors

Nanotechnology as general-purpose technology: empirical evidence and implications

Developments in nanotechnology are poised to have a pervasive effect on various industries for years to come and nanotechnology management research is beginning to appear in peerreviewed management journals. Much of the research on this early, emergent technology is focused on issues of definition and identification of technology type. In this study, we searched the US Patents and Trademarks Of...

Nanotechnology as general purpose technology

Scientific literature postulates that nanotechnology is to be considered as general purpose technology (GPT), characterized by pervasiveness, high technological dynamism and the inducement of innovations within a variety of applications. We set out to not only further systematize existing approaches investigating nanotechnology’s GPT traits based on patent applications, but to extend the analys...

General Purpose Optimization Technology

General Purpose Technologies and Energy Policy

We employ a general purpose technology model with endogenous stochastic growth to simulate the effects of different energy policy schemes. An R&D sector produces endogenous growth by developing radical and incremental technologies. These innovations result in blueprints for capital intermediates, which require raw capital and either carbon or noncarbon-based fuels. A carbon tax therefore affect...

General Purpose Technologies and the Industrial Revolution

Did innovations in core processes during the Industrial Revolution tend to generate innovations in downstream technologies? Here a theoretical model examines the effect of a political shock in a non-innovating society in which there is high potential willingness to cooperate. The result is regional specialization in the innovation process by degree of cooperation. Tests with a Poisson specifica...