Cities and Growth: Knowledge Spillovers in the Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies - ARCHIVED
Articles and reports: 11-622-M2008018
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This paper examines the presence of knowledge spillovers that affect the adoption of advanced technologies in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It examines whether plants that adopt advanced technologies are more likely to do so when there are other nearby plants that do so within a model of technology adoption.
Issue Number: 2008018
Main Product: The Canadian Economy in Transition
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Subjects
Keywords
- Analytical products
- Cities
- Communication problems
- Economic growth
- Factories
- High technology
- Information
- Knowledge
- Knowledge society
- Knowledge transfer
- Learning
- Manufacturing industries
- Manufacturing processes
- Population growth
- Supply and demand
- Technological innovations
- Technology
- Type of business
- Urban population
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