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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Using newly collected national and sub-national data, and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to exp...

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Main Authors: Maloney, William F., Valencia Caicedo, Felipe
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
ACCESS TO EDUCATION
ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGIES
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
ARISTOCRACY
ATTRIBUTES
AVAILABILITY OF DATA
BASIC
BUSINESS SCHOOL
CALCULATORS
CAPABILITIES
CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
CITIES
CIVIL ENGINEERING
COLLEGES
COLONIAL HERITAGE
COMMERCE
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITION POLICY
COMPETITIVENESS
COMPUTERS
CURRICULUM
CUSTOMS
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC HISTORY
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
EDUCATED WORKFORCE
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
ELITES
EMPIRE
ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS
ENGINEERS
ENROLLMENT RATES
ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS
ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
EQUIPMENT
EXPENDITURES
EXTERNALITY
GDP
GROWTH PATH
HIGH-SPEED
HIGHER EDUCATION
HIGHER TECHNICAL EDUCATION
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN RESOURCE
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
INNOVATION
INNOVATIONS
INSTITUTION
INVENTION
INVENTIONS
INVENTORS
KNOW-HOW
LABOR FORCE
LAND GRANT COLLEGES
LEARNING
LITERACY
LITERACY RATE
LITERACY RATES
LITERATURE
LOCAL UNIVERSITIES
MACROECONOMICS
MANUFACTURING
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
MARKET SHARE
MARKETING
MATERIAL
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MISSING ELEMENTS
NATIONAL INNOVATIVE CAPACITY
NATURAL RESOURCE
NATURAL SCIENCES
NATURAL] RESOURCE
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
NEW TECHNOLOGY
NEW UNIVERSITIES
OPEN ACCESS
ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION
PAPERS
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PRINTING PRESS
PRODUCTION PROCESSES
PRODUCTIVITY
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
PROFESSORS
PROGRAMS
PROTECTIONISM
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
R&D
RAM
REGIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
REGISTRIES
REGISTRY
RESULT
RESULTS
RURAL ECONOMIES
SAN
SCHOOLS
SCIENTIFIC ACADEMIES
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
SKILL LEVELS
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
SPECIALIZATION
TAX
TEACHERS
TEACHING
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION
TELEPHONY
TERTIARY EDUCATION
TIME PERIOD
UNIVERSITIES
UNIVERSITY DEGREES
USE OF CAPITAL
USES
WEALTH OF NATIONS
WORKERS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/03/19292695/engineers-innovative-capacity-development-americas
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17725

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