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general purpose technology: a standalone construct

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general purposetechnology1 CONSTRUCTGeneral purposeBRESNAHAN · ECONOMICS OF

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Economics of innovation

a technology, such as electricity or the semiconductor, with wide use across sectors, room for improvement and complementarities that spur innovation elsewhere.

In economics of innovation, general purpose technology refers to a technology, such as electricity or the semiconductor, with wide use across sectors, room for improvement and complementarities that spur innovation elsewhere. This meaning comes from Bresnahan (1995) in Journal of Econometrics.[1]

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  1. Bresnahan, T. F., & Trajtenberg, M. (1995). General purpose technologies ‘Engines of growth’? Journal of Econometrics, 65(1), 83-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4076(94)01598-t

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