A New Tool for Analyzing Embodied Technological Change and Its Implications for Competitiveness, Obsolescence, Employment, Profits and the Structure of the U.S. Indus Base

该项目是作为1987年小型企业创新研究计划征集下的第一阶段奖而资助的。这项研究的目的是开始初步开发新的分析工具，用于确定在每个四位数的美国制造业中共存的技术范围，以及随着低成本技术取代成本较高的技术对生产成本的影响。一个行业中与每种技术相关的成本差异，以及每种技术对投入价格变化的敏感性，以及研究中开发的其他信息，本身对于预测每个行业的投资速度都是有用的。还将评估此类投资对美国和外国市场的影响。为了实现这些目标，这项研究将产生一套适用于个别行业层面的微观经济工具。

This project is funded as a Phase I award under the 1987 Small Business Innovation Research Program Solicitation. The purpose of this research is to begin initial development of new analytical tools which will be used to determine the range of technologies coexisting in each of the four-digit U.S. manufacturing industries and the effect on production costs as lower cost technologies replace more costly ones. The differences in costs associated with each of the technologies in an industry, and the sensitivity of each to changes in input prices, along with other information developed in the study will be useful per se and in predicting the pace at which investment will be undertaken in each industry. The effect of such investment on U.S. and foreign markets will also be evaluated. To accomplish these ends, the research will result in a set of microeconomic tools applicable at the individual industry level.