scholarly journals The chemical industry 1900-1930: Industrial growth and technological change (Haber, L. F.)

1973 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. A592
Author(s):  
Aaron J. Ihde
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Industrial Growth

Capital Deepening and Technological Change: The Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry 1940–1960

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Manning ◽  
G. Thornburn
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Production Function ◽  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Pulp And Paper Industry ◽  
Plant Size ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Capital Deepening ◽  
Forest Industries ◽  
Pulp And Paper Industries

The pulp and paper industry is generally considered the most technologically progressive of the forest industries. A study employing Solow's method indicated a rise in the index of technological change of 50% between 1940 and 1960. This compares with a 547% increase for the chemical industry. Derivation of the capital production function for the pulp and paper industries shows that all increases in productivity, 1940–1960, were due to change in technology. There is also some indication that optimal plant size has been reached.

Science, Technology and the Large Corporation

1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
The Core ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Political Differences

ECONOMIC HISTORY IS FAR REMOVED FROM PRECISE SCIENCE and cannot offer an unambiguous explanation of the initiation, pace and causes of rapid industrial growth. Nevertheless, few economic historians would disagree that the pattern of growth is not random; and that in evaluating it, technological innovation must be a central element.The landmarks of industrial development are conventionally thought of in terms of science and technology. From the adoption of the stirrup and the plough, which heralded the feudal age in Europe; to the spread of the silicon chip and the microprocessor, which lie at the core of the emergent IT economy, the development of society can be charted in terms of technological change. And just as the analysis of technological change has become one of the dominant tools of the economic historian, so ‘futurology’ is centred around trajectories of innovation. Over the next century changes are projected which are just as profound as those experienced since 1890. The world of 2090 will be different, and while the fundamental political differences may be unpredictable, there is a presumption that it will be technologically very different from the present. It is appropriate that popular speculation about future society is termed not ‘future fiction’ but ‘science fiction’.

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