Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72398 
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2005
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Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP05/14
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University College Dublin, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
We analyse technological progress when knowledge has a large tacit component so that transmission of knowledge takes place through direct personal imitation. It is shown that the rate of technological progress depends on the number of innovators in the same knowledge network. Assuming the diffusion of knowledge to mirror the geographical pattern of trade - the greater the trade between two sites, the greater the probability that technical knowledge ows between them - we show that a gradual expansion of trade causes a sudden rise in the rate of technological progress.
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O40
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Working Paper

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