Technological Innovation And Technology Diffusion Of Micro-economic Analysis

Systematical analysis of technological progress, technological innovation, technological diffusion and their economic effects become an important field of economics for a long time. In particular, theory of economic growth pays more attention to the affects of the technology and knowledge on the conduction mechanism of economic growth and stability of the economic growth system. This thesis based on much literatures emphasize particularly on the theoretic analysis of problems of technological innovation and technological diffusion, this thesis also conceive a method of research on the growth path hi the economics growth theory.This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 is introduction, section 1.1 compared different explanation for technological progress, technological innovation, technological diffusion and R&D, which are basic concepts in the literatures. This section also introduces different categories of technological innovation in current studies. Section 1.2 briefly recommends expositions of technical factors of economists in distinct times. In section 1.3 introduce the train of thought of this thesis.Chapter 2 consists three sections. Section 2.1 pay study to microeconomic analysis of technological innovation, the main content is analyzing factors that affect firm's decision for innovation. In this section, I set up a theoretical model from which explanations how determinate optimal time path of firm's1 investment to project of innovation. Section 2.2 analyzes some principles of the technological diffusion, characterizes main manners of diffusion, analyzes uncertainty in the process of diffusion and investigates problem of diffusion's time path. Section 2.3 I consider a principle of measure of innovation and diffusion.Chapter 3 investigates micro foundation of endogenous technological progress. Section 3.1 first briefly reviews theory of firm, and then set up a model with that analyze under technological innovation and diffusion firm's maximum profit behavior. Section 3.2 investigates relation between consumer and technological innovation.Chapter 4 consists of three sections. Section 4.1 briefly reviews economic growth theory. The main contents of the Section 4.2 are analysis of externality of the knowledge and R&D. In this section also explains affect mechanism of ' learning by doing' . Section 4.3 studies the micro mechanism effect of technological innovation on the economic growth path, from this point explains endogeny of technological progress.