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
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
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&AMP;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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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/03/19292695/engineers-innovative-capacity-development-americas
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17725

Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

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