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[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/04/globalization-helps-spread-knowledge-and-technology-across-borders/ by Aqib Aslam 11/4/18 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/04/globalization-helps-spread-knowledge-and-technology-across-borders/ by Aqib Aslam 11/4/18 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | ||
Our research in Chapter 4 of the April 2018 World Economic Outlook takes a closer look at how technology travels between countries. We find that the spread of knowledge and technology across borders has intensified because of globalization. In emerging markets, the transfer of technology has helped to boost innovation and productivity even in the recent period of weak global productivity growth. | Our research in Chapter 4 of the April 2018 World Economic Outlook takes a closer look at how technology travels between countries. We find that the spread of knowledge and technology across borders has intensified because of globalization. In emerging markets, the transfer of technology has helped to boost innovation and productivity even in the recent period of weak global productivity growth. | ||
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[https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more by Andrew Russell aeon] | |||
Innovation is a dominant ideology of our era, embraced in America by Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Washington DC political elite. As the pursuit of innovation has inspired technologists and capitalists, it has also provoked critics who suspect that the peddlers of innovation radically overvalue innovation. What happens after innovation, they argue, is more important. Maintenance and repair, the building of infrastructures, the mundane labour that goes into sustaining functioning and efficient infrastructures, simply has more impact on people’s daily lives than the vast majority of technological innovations. | |||
