Sources of productivity change of human resources in science and technology
Science and technology plays a key role in a national competitiveness. Traditional analysis of national competitiveness help to understand national competitive advantages, but such analysis do not focus on the advantages derived from technology applications. Equally crucial for the survival and g...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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| Online Access: | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2578/1/Ying-Chyi_Chou.pdf |
| Summary: | Science and technology plays a key role in a national competitiveness. Traditional
analysis of national competitiveness help to understand national competitive
advantages, but such analysis do not focus on the advantages derived from
technology applications. Equally crucial for the survival and growth of a nation’s
technology are human resources in science and technology (HRST). Nations are
confronting challenges of nurturing HRST and utilizing its HRST more effectively.
Therefore, evaluating the HRST of each nation provides key information. All nations
should to refocus competitive strategies of HRST towards increasing productive
efficiency or productivity growth. This paper analyzes the evolution of the HRST’s
productivity change and pattern in a sample of 39 countries that are evaluated in the
2007 The World Competitiveness Yearbook published by IMD. The analysis is based
on data envelopment analysis (DEA) which is a mathematical programming approach.
We estimate Malmquist productivity indexes and decompose them into four sources of
productivity change. The result suggests that technical change of HRST explain most
of the productivity growth observed during the period. The contribution of efficiency change to productivity growth is less. |
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