On the uneven evolution of human know-how

被引：97

作者：

Nelson, RR ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Columbia Univ, Int Affairs Bldg Sch Int & Publ, New York, NY 10027 USA

来源：

RESEARCH POLICY | 2003年 / 32卷 / 06期

基金：

美国安德鲁·梅隆基金会;

关键词：

evolution; human; know-how;

D O I：

10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00093-8

中图分类号：

C93 [管理学];

学科分类号：

12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

It long has been understood that the advance of technology, know-how more broadly, has been the wellspring of economic progress. It has been less well recognized that the advance of human know-how has been extremely uneven, very rapid and cumulatively great in some fields, like communications and computation, and quite limited in other fields, like house building and education. This paper begins to explore the reasons for this unevenness. At one level an important reason is that the sciences behind various technologies have advanced unevenly, but this only pushes the question back a stage; why the unevenness of scientific advance? The paper makes use of a comparison between medicine and education to make many of its points. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：909 / 922

页数：14