Wayne Gray Presentation - The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness? June 2010
•Download as PPT, PDF•
0 likes•343 views
The document discusses several studies on the relationship between environmental regulation and productivity/competitiveness. An early 1970s study found environmental regulations had a negative impact on productivity in industries like paper, oil, and steel. A 1998 study found that pollution abatement investment in pulp and paper mills reduced investment in productive capital. However, abatement investment also contributed to output. A 2005 study found plants with higher abatement costs were less efficient at both reducing emissions and production, but efficiency in these areas was positively correlated, possibly due to differences in management quality across plants.
Report
Share
Report
Share
![Research Background ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Porter at 20 - June-28-2010](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Recommended
Project 8 presentation. Research Showcase . June 2017
This document summarizes research assessing the impact of business engagement with publicly funded science in the UK. The researchers analyzed data from the Gateway to Research database and Business Structure Database to study over 10,000 UK firms. The main findings were:
1. Receiving a publicly funded research grant had a positive average impact on firms' employment and turnover growth in both the short and medium term.
2. The impact was stronger for manufacturing firms, especially high-tech manufacturers, compared to services firms.
3. The impact increased incrementally with the overall value of the grant received, though smaller grants had a larger positive effect on productivity growth.
4. Next steps will analyze network effects, differences by funding source
Keynote Bartelsman
This document discusses understanding production technology and whether information and communication technology (ICT) should be considered a general purpose technology (GPT). It provides definitions of what qualifies as a GPT and lists some known GPTs like steam power, electricity, and computers. The document examines empirical patterns associated with GPT adoption and considers whether ICT meets criteria to be classified as a GPT. It also reviews emerging disruptive technologies and their development.
Session 7 b commentson daneilkerpaperonukr&d servicelives2014iariw[1]
This document summarizes Wendy Li's comments on Daniel Ker's paper comparing survey and patent-based approaches to estimating the service lives of R&D assets. It outlines two main methods - a UK survey of firms and analysis of UK patent renewal data. The survey had response rates around 43% while the patent analysis matched 35% of patents to businesses. Results showed median lives ranging from 5 to 10 years across industries. Li comments that both approaches have limitations but the survey provides direct estimates while the patent method avoids issues of unknown skewed distributions.
it & Economic Performance a Critical Review of the Empirical Data
The present study undertakes a critical review of the research around the multi-significant issue of the correlation between the IT investments and the economic performance to both micro and macroeconomic level. The aim of this study is to shed light on the interaction of IT with the economy, at corporate, industry and national level and document it¢ s contribution to productivity and therefore to economic growth. My conclusion is that there is a positive effect of IT investments to both the above economic indicators in all aspects, but is something that needs further research so as to find a more clear and risk adjusted relation.
beyond patents:scholars of innovation use patenting as an indicator of innova...
This paper discusses the problems with using patents as a measure of innovation and papers as a measure of science. It also uses data to show the problems. for example, the number of patent applications and awards have grown by six times since 1984 while productivity growth has slowed.
CBO’s Economic Forecast: Understanding Productivity Growth
Presentation by Robert Shackleton, an analyst in CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, to the NABE Foundation’s 18th Annual Economic Measurement Seminar.
The return to the technological frontier: The conditional effects of plants' ...
The return to the technological frontier: The conditional effects of plants' ...Palkansaajien tutkimuslaitos
This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R&D investments. We analyse the productivity effect of a plant’s own R&D as well as the productivity impact of the plant’s parent firm’s and other firms’ proximity-weighted R&D stocks. The results show that a plant’s own and a parent firm’s R&D have a positive productivity impact and that the former impact decreases as the distance from the industry’s technological frontier increases. Furthermore, the productivity effect of other firms’ proximity-weighted R&D is, on average, positive, but this impact increases in the distance from the technological frontier. Another important finding is that all the plants tend to converge towards the industry’s technological frontier despite the size of external R&D spillovers.Repetto, Robert jobs competitiveness and environmental
This document discusses the issues surrounding jobs, competitiveness, and environmental regulation in the United States. It is argued that stringent environmental regulations impose high costs on U.S. industries, putting them at a competitive disadvantage internationally and causing firms to move investments and jobs overseas or lose market share to other countries with less regulation. However, the document notes that some economists have found little evidence that environmental protection costs have actually affected U.S. competitiveness or profitability.
Recommended
Project 8 presentation. Research Showcase . June 2017
This document summarizes research assessing the impact of business engagement with publicly funded science in the UK. The researchers analyzed data from the Gateway to Research database and Business Structure Database to study over 10,000 UK firms. The main findings were:
1. Receiving a publicly funded research grant had a positive average impact on firms' employment and turnover growth in both the short and medium term.
2. The impact was stronger for manufacturing firms, especially high-tech manufacturers, compared to services firms.
3. The impact increased incrementally with the overall value of the grant received, though smaller grants had a larger positive effect on productivity growth.
4. Next steps will analyze network effects, differences by funding source
Keynote Bartelsman
This document discusses understanding production technology and whether information and communication technology (ICT) should be considered a general purpose technology (GPT). It provides definitions of what qualifies as a GPT and lists some known GPTs like steam power, electricity, and computers. The document examines empirical patterns associated with GPT adoption and considers whether ICT meets criteria to be classified as a GPT. It also reviews emerging disruptive technologies and their development.
Session 7 b commentson daneilkerpaperonukr&d servicelives2014iariw[1]
This document summarizes Wendy Li's comments on Daniel Ker's paper comparing survey and patent-based approaches to estimating the service lives of R&D assets. It outlines two main methods - a UK survey of firms and analysis of UK patent renewal data. The survey had response rates around 43% while the patent analysis matched 35% of patents to businesses. Results showed median lives ranging from 5 to 10 years across industries. Li comments that both approaches have limitations but the survey provides direct estimates while the patent method avoids issues of unknown skewed distributions.
it & Economic Performance a Critical Review of the Empirical Data
The present study undertakes a critical review of the research around the multi-significant issue of the correlation between the IT investments and the economic performance to both micro and macroeconomic level. The aim of this study is to shed light on the interaction of IT with the economy, at corporate, industry and national level and document it¢ s contribution to productivity and therefore to economic growth. My conclusion is that there is a positive effect of IT investments to both the above economic indicators in all aspects, but is something that needs further research so as to find a more clear and risk adjusted relation.
beyond patents:scholars of innovation use patenting as an indicator of innova...
This paper discusses the problems with using patents as a measure of innovation and papers as a measure of science. It also uses data to show the problems. for example, the number of patent applications and awards have grown by six times since 1984 while productivity growth has slowed.
CBO’s Economic Forecast: Understanding Productivity Growth
Presentation by Robert Shackleton, an analyst in CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, to the NABE Foundation’s 18th Annual Economic Measurement Seminar.
The return to the technological frontier: The conditional effects of plants' ...
The return to the technological frontier: The conditional effects of plants' ...Palkansaajien tutkimuslaitos
This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R&D investments. We analyse the productivity effect of a plant’s own R&D as well as the productivity impact of the plant’s parent firm’s and other firms’ proximity-weighted R&D stocks. The results show that a plant’s own and a parent firm’s R&D have a positive productivity impact and that the former impact decreases as the distance from the industry’s technological frontier increases. Furthermore, the productivity effect of other firms’ proximity-weighted R&D is, on average, positive, but this impact increases in the distance from the technological frontier. Another important finding is that all the plants tend to converge towards the industry’s technological frontier despite the size of external R&D spillovers.Repetto, Robert jobs competitiveness and environmental
This document discusses the issues surrounding jobs, competitiveness, and environmental regulation in the United States. It is argued that stringent environmental regulations impose high costs on U.S. industries, putting them at a competitive disadvantage internationally and causing firms to move investments and jobs overseas or lose market share to other countries with less regulation. However, the document notes that some economists have found little evidence that environmental protection costs have actually affected U.S. competitiveness or profitability.
The Future of Productivity
This document discusses productivity and its importance for economic growth. It examines reasons for slowing productivity growth across OECD countries in recent decades. Key points discussed include the large productivity gaps between frontier firms and laggard firms within industries, slowing adoption of new technologies, and declining business dynamism as seen by falling startup rates. The role of public policy in encouraging the diffusion of innovations from highly productive frontier firms to others is also considered.
GreenSight presentation v11 Crowd Funder
GreenSight is a drone technology company that provides remote sensing data and analytics to the agriculture industry. It aims to capture a sizable portion of the projected $76 billion market for drone usage in agriculture over the next decade. GreenSight's proprietary drone platform can autonomously detect changing conditions and issues alerts. The company plans to initially target the turfgrass and golf industry ($1.5 billion) and agrochemical companies ($1 billion) with its monitoring services before expanding to larger agriculture markets. Financial projections estimate $700k in revenue for 2016, growing to $2.5 million in 2017 as the company rolls out nationally and enters new markets, with the goal of profitability by 2019.
2016 Strategic Direction Report Natural Gas
The natural gas industry continues to adapt to low prices by finding efficiencies and new opportunities for growth. Economic growth in emerging markets is driving increased global demand for natural gas and presenting opportunities for suppliers. Countries in Asia seeking alternatives to oil are expected to rely heavily on imports from the US and Australia to meet rising needs. While safety remains the top concern, international market access is also a significant issue according to respondents outside North America. Managing aging infrastructure and ensuring reliability further challenge producers in this market.
[1999][r&d][eee extended engineeringenterprise]
This document discusses trends in tax incentives for research and development (R&D) across OECD countries. It finds that more countries are introducing R&D tax credits rather than allowances, and targeting incentives towards both small and large firms. The design of fiscal incentives for R&D varies widely between countries and includes factors such as whether they apply to current or capital expenditures, their structure as allowances or credits, targeting certain levels or increments of R&D spending, and eligibility of foreign versus domestic firms. Overall the document analyzes how different incentive designs can impact the effectiveness of achieving policy goals like increasing private sector R&D investment.
Getting Research Policy for Food and Agriculture Right
1) Agricultural research policy assumptions about funding sources and spillovers may not be accurate, with research requiring more funding than expected from private sources or farmers to reach socially optimal levels.
2) Recent evidence shows returns to agricultural R&D are high but prior estimates overstated rates of return due to attribution and estimation problems. True returns are still very large but more modest than thought.
3) Global agricultural R&D investment has grown but intensity ratios have declined in many developed countries, with less funding directed toward on-farm productivity in places like the US and Australia.
Competition Technological Investments Productivity Cusolito Garcia Maloney IM...
Competition Technological Investments Productivity Cusolito Garcia Maloney IM...OECD, Economics Department
Competition Technological Investments Productivity Cusolito Garcia Maloney IMF-OECD-WB Product Market Competition Regulation Inclusive Growth June 2018BDO Manufacturing Prospects Report
BDO's Manufacturing Prospects Report, in association with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, analyses the sector's outlook post the referendum, focusing on the key risks and opportunities, strategic plans and highlights manufacturers' top requirements from the EU trade agreement and industrial strategy.
STI Scoreboard 2015
The document summarizes key findings from the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2015. It finds that a small number of countries, institutions, and businesses concentrate frontier technologies and high-impact science. Government support is important for long-term research to address global challenges. International collaboration and scientist mobility help spread innovation more widely. The Scoreboard monitors innovation performance across countries according to pillars like knowledge, skills, competitiveness, and societal impacts.
EU ETS innovation fund and low-carbon breakthrough technologies
Presentation on the design of forthcoming EU ETS innovation fund. The barriers and options for industrial low-carbon technologies and examples of low-carbon breakthrough technologies in steel, aluminium, chemicals and cement
The Determining Factors of Productivity
This document summarizes a journal article that surveys research on what determines differences in productivity levels across businesses. Some key findings from the research discussed in the article include:
1. There are large and persistent differences in productivity levels even among businesses within the same narrowly defined industries.
2. These differences have influenced research agendas in fields like macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor economics, and international trade.
3. Research has identified factors both internal and external to businesses that influence productivity levels. Internal factors include production practices, while external factors include characteristics of the business environment and market structure.
4. Major unanswered questions remain about the sources of productivity differences across businesses and how large differences can be sustained in
What Determines Productivity?
Two producers may have quite different labor productivity levels even though they have the same production technology if one happens to use capital much more intensively, say because they face different factor prices.
America’s Real Manufacturing Advantage
A new wave of software innovation is about to transform industry—and give the United States the chance for a lasting edge.
Session 4 a daniel ker
This document summarizes research into the relationship between organizational capital, R&D assets, and offshore outsourcing in nine US high-tech industries. The research found that industries with higher levels of offshore outsourcing invested less in intangible assets like R&D and organizational capital. It also found that organizational capital and R&D assets were generally complements that increased firm profitability, though in some IT hardware industries organizational capital had a negative effect related to R&D. Overall, the research suggests industries balance intangible asset investment and offshore outsourcing to maximize productivity growth and global competitiveness.
The Chicken/Egg Spiral
The document discusses the relationship between economic growth, environmental protection, and technological progress. It argues that while technological progress is often seen as decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts, in reality technological progress and economic growth are interlinked and both depend on natural capital stocks. Even with efficiency gains from technological progress, rising production and consumption will continue to increase environmental pressures unless the overall scale of the economy remains within ecological limits. A steady state economy with stable or mildly fluctuating production and consumption is needed for long-term sustainability.
On the contribution of information and communicationtechnolo.docx
On the contribution of information and communication
technology to productivity growth in Australia
Md Shahiduzzaman1,2 • Allan Layton3 •
Khorshed Alam2,3
Received: 18 January 2015 / Accepted: 28 July 2015 / Published online: 11 August 2015
� Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Abstract This paper revisits the so-called ‘ICT-productivity paradox’ from a
long-run perspective by using annual Australian data for 1965–2013. It provides
estimates of long-run and short-run elasticities of labour productivity with respect to
ICT capital deepening, and explores the nature of long-run causality among pro-
ductivity growth and ICT and non-ICT capital deepening. The estimates of long-run
elasticities are derived by employing both time-series and panel data econometric
techniques. The empirical results provide strong confirmatory evidence of the long-
run impact of ICT capital deepening on labour productivity in Australia.
Keywords Information and communication technology � Capital deepening �
Productivity
JEL Classification O1 � O4 � O5
& Md Shahiduzzaman
[email protected]
Allan Layton
[email protected]
Khorshed Alam
[email protected]
1
Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD,
Australia
2
Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern
Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
3
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
123
Econ Change Restruct (2015) 48:281–304
DOI 10.1007/s10644-015-9171-9
http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10644-015-9171-9&domain=pdf
http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10644-015-9171-9&domain=pdf
1 Introduction
The impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on productivity
has long been an ongoing debate in economic research. Economics Nobel Laureate,
Robert Solow, once quipped ‘you can see the computer age everywhere but in the
productivity statistics’ (Solow 1987). Solow’s aphorism, which became known as
the ‘productivity paradox’, was in response to apparently negligible measurable
effects of ICT investment on productivity in the United States (US) and elsewhere
(Draca et al. 2006; Triplett 1999), and led to intense research interest in this domain
in later years.
In many cases research results supported a strong contribution of ICT investment
to productivity and economic growth in the 1990s (e.g., Jorgenson and Stiroh 1999,
2000; Oliner and Sichel 2000; Parham et al. 2001). Oliner and Sichel (1994),
however, argued that, due to the very low share of computing equipment in total
capital stock, seeking to find a significant contribution of ICT to productivity was an
unrealistic expectation. Gordon (2000) noted that much of the productivity
resurgence in the 1990s in the US was aided by the favourable economic conditions
rather than the contribution of ICT. In a relatively recent study, Jorgenson et al.
(2008) found the role of ICT .
A Special Study of Emerging Global Trends in Advanced Manufacturing
This document summarizes a study on emerging global trends in advanced manufacturing. It identifies five converging trends driving advanced manufacturing, including the ubiquitous role of IT, reliance on modeling and simulation, accelerated innovation in global supply chains, rapid changeability in response to customers, and support for sustainable manufacturing. Emerging trends in semiconductors include continued silicon scaling and diversification of materials. Advanced materials and additive manufacturing also show potential. The study examines factors enabling advanced manufacturing and provides future scenarios over 20 years for semiconductors, advanced materials, additive manufacturing, and synthetic biology. It aims to understand trends, enabling factors, and future scenarios in these technologies and advanced manufacturing overall.
Green Talks LIVE | Assessing the Economic Impacts of Environmental Policies
On 17 May 2021, OECD Chief Economist Laurence Boone launched a publication presenting evidence from a decade of OECD research and analysis, which looks at the relationship between environmental policies and economic outcomes such as employment, investment, trade and productivity. Over the years, governments have gradually adopted more rigorous environmental policies to tackle challenges associated with pressing environmental issues, such as climate change, air pollution, waste management or biodiversity loss. The ambition of these policies is, however, often tempered by their perceived negative effects on the economy.
In a world characterised by the rise in global value chains and capital flows, do differences in the stringency of environmental policies across countries alter firms’ competitiveness and cost jobs? Does taking the lead trigger a first-mover advantage? What are the differentiated impacts across firms, industries and regions? And are these policies effective in reducing emissions from industry?
We explored these questions in the context of the Covid-19 crisis and green recovery during a Green Talks LIVE webinar with insights on designing environmental policies to ensure the largest benefits and compensate workers and industries that may lose out. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion with guest speakers.
Introduction: Rodolfo Lacy, OECD Environment Director
Presentation of key findings: Laurence Boone, OECD Chief Economist
Panel discussion with:
• Al McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, United States Environmental Protection Agency
• Clare Lombardelli, Chief Economic Adviser, HM Treasury, United Kingdom
• Riccardo Barbieri, Chief Economist, Italian Treasury
Moderated by: Shardul Agrawala, Head of the OECD Environment and Economy Integration Division
Find the report here: https://www.oecd.org/environment/assessing-the-economic-impacts-of-environmental-policies-bf2fb156-en.htm
Geep assignment
This document discusses legal and political considerations impacting IT services companies operating in the European and American markets. It provides an overview of the large Indian IT services industry and its importance in the US and EU. Recent protectionist tendencies in these markets, like visa restrictions and outsourcing bans, are analyzed using a PESTEL framework. Visa restrictions in the US Senate immigration bill and changes to UK post-study work visas pose challenges for Indian firms reliant on H-1B and L-1 visas. Tariffs, quotas, subsidies and other policies are described as forms of protectionism pursued by governments. The document hypothesizes that a PESTEL analysis can determine the causes and effects of these protectionist moves
Ftth Europe Feb 11
1. The document discusses the need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to limit global warming to under 2°C, and how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help achieve this goal.
2. ICTs have the potential to indirectly reduce global carbon emissions by up to 15% through technologies like telecommuting, smart energy grids, and e-commerce.
3. The document proposes a "carbon rewards" strategy of providing free high-speed fiber internet connections in exchange for customers paying a premium on their utility bills, and being rewarded for reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint over time.
4. This strategy could provide a more sustainable revenue model for fiber networks compared to traditional
ACC Report on Money/Jobs Created by 97 Petrochemical Projects from Shale Gas
A new report from the American Chemistry Council, titled "Shale Gas, Competitiveness, and New U.S. Chemical Industry Investment—An Analysis of Announced Projects" which examines 97 announced new projects in the petrochemical area directly related to cheap, abundant natural gas supplies from American shale. The report finds these 97 new projects will create 530,000 direct and indirect new jobs and generate an astonishing $71.7 billion in new investment. The economic impact of shale gas, and the miracle of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) cannot be overstated.
William Hogan, Research Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard U...
William Hogan, Research Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard U...Sustainable Prosperity
The document discusses different perspectives on the costs of transitioning to clean energy. It notes that while clean energy technologies are currently more expensive than fossil fuels, their costs are declining over time. There is debate around whether policy should focus on research to lower costs before large-scale deployment, or subsidize current deployment to drive innovation and meet climate goals. The document also summarizes cost estimates from the US Energy Information Administration and notes they have been controversial but provide an important benchmark for analysis.Trigg Talley, U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change
The document outlines the United States' 2025 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 26-28% below 2005 levels. It details examples of existing and new policies across various sectors that will help achieve this target, including the Clean Power Plan, vehicle fuel efficiency standards, methane emission regulations, HFC phasedowns, and forest/wetland protection programs. The target doubles the country's decarbonization pace and is consistent with over 80% reductions by 2050.
More Related Content
Similar to Wayne Gray Presentation - The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness? June 2010
The Future of Productivity
This document discusses productivity and its importance for economic growth. It examines reasons for slowing productivity growth across OECD countries in recent decades. Key points discussed include the large productivity gaps between frontier firms and laggard firms within industries, slowing adoption of new technologies, and declining business dynamism as seen by falling startup rates. The role of public policy in encouraging the diffusion of innovations from highly productive frontier firms to others is also considered.
GreenSight presentation v11 Crowd Funder
GreenSight is a drone technology company that provides remote sensing data and analytics to the agriculture industry. It aims to capture a sizable portion of the projected $76 billion market for drone usage in agriculture over the next decade. GreenSight's proprietary drone platform can autonomously detect changing conditions and issues alerts. The company plans to initially target the turfgrass and golf industry ($1.5 billion) and agrochemical companies ($1 billion) with its monitoring services before expanding to larger agriculture markets. Financial projections estimate $700k in revenue for 2016, growing to $2.5 million in 2017 as the company rolls out nationally and enters new markets, with the goal of profitability by 2019.
2016 Strategic Direction Report Natural Gas
The natural gas industry continues to adapt to low prices by finding efficiencies and new opportunities for growth. Economic growth in emerging markets is driving increased global demand for natural gas and presenting opportunities for suppliers. Countries in Asia seeking alternatives to oil are expected to rely heavily on imports from the US and Australia to meet rising needs. While safety remains the top concern, international market access is also a significant issue according to respondents outside North America. Managing aging infrastructure and ensuring reliability further challenge producers in this market.
[1999][r&d][eee extended engineeringenterprise]
This document discusses trends in tax incentives for research and development (R&D) across OECD countries. It finds that more countries are introducing R&D tax credits rather than allowances, and targeting incentives towards both small and large firms. The design of fiscal incentives for R&D varies widely between countries and includes factors such as whether they apply to current or capital expenditures, their structure as allowances or credits, targeting certain levels or increments of R&D spending, and eligibility of foreign versus domestic firms. Overall the document analyzes how different incentive designs can impact the effectiveness of achieving policy goals like increasing private sector R&D investment.
Getting Research Policy for Food and Agriculture Right
1) Agricultural research policy assumptions about funding sources and spillovers may not be accurate, with research requiring more funding than expected from private sources or farmers to reach socially optimal levels.
2) Recent evidence shows returns to agricultural R&D are high but prior estimates overstated rates of return due to attribution and estimation problems. True returns are still very large but more modest than thought.
3) Global agricultural R&D investment has grown but intensity ratios have declined in many developed countries, with less funding directed toward on-farm productivity in places like the US and Australia.
Competition Technological Investments Productivity Cusolito Garcia Maloney IM...
Competition Technological Investments Productivity Cusolito Garcia Maloney IM...OECD, Economics Department
Competition Technological Investments Productivity Cusolito Garcia Maloney IMF-OECD-WB Product Market Competition Regulation Inclusive Growth June 2018BDO Manufacturing Prospects Report
BDO's Manufacturing Prospects Report, in association with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, analyses the sector's outlook post the referendum, focusing on the key risks and opportunities, strategic plans and highlights manufacturers' top requirements from the EU trade agreement and industrial strategy.
STI Scoreboard 2015
The document summarizes key findings from the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2015. It finds that a small number of countries, institutions, and businesses concentrate frontier technologies and high-impact science. Government support is important for long-term research to address global challenges. International collaboration and scientist mobility help spread innovation more widely. The Scoreboard monitors innovation performance across countries according to pillars like knowledge, skills, competitiveness, and societal impacts.
EU ETS innovation fund and low-carbon breakthrough technologies
Presentation on the design of forthcoming EU ETS innovation fund. The barriers and options for industrial low-carbon technologies and examples of low-carbon breakthrough technologies in steel, aluminium, chemicals and cement
The Determining Factors of Productivity
This document summarizes a journal article that surveys research on what determines differences in productivity levels across businesses. Some key findings from the research discussed in the article include:
1. There are large and persistent differences in productivity levels even among businesses within the same narrowly defined industries.
2. These differences have influenced research agendas in fields like macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor economics, and international trade.
3. Research has identified factors both internal and external to businesses that influence productivity levels. Internal factors include production practices, while external factors include characteristics of the business environment and market structure.
4. Major unanswered questions remain about the sources of productivity differences across businesses and how large differences can be sustained in
What Determines Productivity?
Two producers may have quite different labor productivity levels even though they have the same production technology if one happens to use capital much more intensively, say because they face different factor prices.
America’s Real Manufacturing Advantage
A new wave of software innovation is about to transform industry—and give the United States the chance for a lasting edge.
Session 4 a daniel ker
This document summarizes research into the relationship between organizational capital, R&D assets, and offshore outsourcing in nine US high-tech industries. The research found that industries with higher levels of offshore outsourcing invested less in intangible assets like R&D and organizational capital. It also found that organizational capital and R&D assets were generally complements that increased firm profitability, though in some IT hardware industries organizational capital had a negative effect related to R&D. Overall, the research suggests industries balance intangible asset investment and offshore outsourcing to maximize productivity growth and global competitiveness.
The Chicken/Egg Spiral
The document discusses the relationship between economic growth, environmental protection, and technological progress. It argues that while technological progress is often seen as decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts, in reality technological progress and economic growth are interlinked and both depend on natural capital stocks. Even with efficiency gains from technological progress, rising production and consumption will continue to increase environmental pressures unless the overall scale of the economy remains within ecological limits. A steady state economy with stable or mildly fluctuating production and consumption is needed for long-term sustainability.
On the contribution of information and communicationtechnolo.docx
On the contribution of information and communication
technology to productivity growth in Australia
Md Shahiduzzaman1,2 • Allan Layton3 •
Khorshed Alam2,3
Received: 18 January 2015 / Accepted: 28 July 2015 / Published online: 11 August 2015
� Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Abstract This paper revisits the so-called ‘ICT-productivity paradox’ from a
long-run perspective by using annual Australian data for 1965–2013. It provides
estimates of long-run and short-run elasticities of labour productivity with respect to
ICT capital deepening, and explores the nature of long-run causality among pro-
ductivity growth and ICT and non-ICT capital deepening. The estimates of long-run
elasticities are derived by employing both time-series and panel data econometric
techniques. The empirical results provide strong confirmatory evidence of the long-
run impact of ICT capital deepening on labour productivity in Australia.
Keywords Information and communication technology � Capital deepening �
Productivity
JEL Classification O1 � O4 � O5
& Md Shahiduzzaman
[email protected]
Allan Layton
[email protected]
Khorshed Alam
[email protected]
1
Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD,
Australia
2
Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern
Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
3
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
123
Econ Change Restruct (2015) 48:281–304
DOI 10.1007/s10644-015-9171-9
http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10644-015-9171-9&domain=pdf
http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10644-015-9171-9&domain=pdf
1 Introduction
The impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on productivity
has long been an ongoing debate in economic research. Economics Nobel Laureate,
Robert Solow, once quipped ‘you can see the computer age everywhere but in the
productivity statistics’ (Solow 1987). Solow’s aphorism, which became known as
the ‘productivity paradox’, was in response to apparently negligible measurable
effects of ICT investment on productivity in the United States (US) and elsewhere
(Draca et al. 2006; Triplett 1999), and led to intense research interest in this domain
in later years.
In many cases research results supported a strong contribution of ICT investment
to productivity and economic growth in the 1990s (e.g., Jorgenson and Stiroh 1999,
2000; Oliner and Sichel 2000; Parham et al. 2001). Oliner and Sichel (1994),
however, argued that, due to the very low share of computing equipment in total
capital stock, seeking to find a significant contribution of ICT to productivity was an
unrealistic expectation. Gordon (2000) noted that much of the productivity
resurgence in the 1990s in the US was aided by the favourable economic conditions
rather than the contribution of ICT. In a relatively recent study, Jorgenson et al.
(2008) found the role of ICT .
A Special Study of Emerging Global Trends in Advanced Manufacturing
This document summarizes a study on emerging global trends in advanced manufacturing. It identifies five converging trends driving advanced manufacturing, including the ubiquitous role of IT, reliance on modeling and simulation, accelerated innovation in global supply chains, rapid changeability in response to customers, and support for sustainable manufacturing. Emerging trends in semiconductors include continued silicon scaling and diversification of materials. Advanced materials and additive manufacturing also show potential. The study examines factors enabling advanced manufacturing and provides future scenarios over 20 years for semiconductors, advanced materials, additive manufacturing, and synthetic biology. It aims to understand trends, enabling factors, and future scenarios in these technologies and advanced manufacturing overall.
Green Talks LIVE | Assessing the Economic Impacts of Environmental Policies
On 17 May 2021, OECD Chief Economist Laurence Boone launched a publication presenting evidence from a decade of OECD research and analysis, which looks at the relationship between environmental policies and economic outcomes such as employment, investment, trade and productivity. Over the years, governments have gradually adopted more rigorous environmental policies to tackle challenges associated with pressing environmental issues, such as climate change, air pollution, waste management or biodiversity loss. The ambition of these policies is, however, often tempered by their perceived negative effects on the economy.
In a world characterised by the rise in global value chains and capital flows, do differences in the stringency of environmental policies across countries alter firms’ competitiveness and cost jobs? Does taking the lead trigger a first-mover advantage? What are the differentiated impacts across firms, industries and regions? And are these policies effective in reducing emissions from industry?
We explored these questions in the context of the Covid-19 crisis and green recovery during a Green Talks LIVE webinar with insights on designing environmental policies to ensure the largest benefits and compensate workers and industries that may lose out. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion with guest speakers.
Introduction: Rodolfo Lacy, OECD Environment Director
Presentation of key findings: Laurence Boone, OECD Chief Economist
Panel discussion with:
• Al McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, United States Environmental Protection Agency
• Clare Lombardelli, Chief Economic Adviser, HM Treasury, United Kingdom
• Riccardo Barbieri, Chief Economist, Italian Treasury
Moderated by: Shardul Agrawala, Head of the OECD Environment and Economy Integration Division
Find the report here: https://www.oecd.org/environment/assessing-the-economic-impacts-of-environmental-policies-bf2fb156-en.htm
Geep assignment
This document discusses legal and political considerations impacting IT services companies operating in the European and American markets. It provides an overview of the large Indian IT services industry and its importance in the US and EU. Recent protectionist tendencies in these markets, like visa restrictions and outsourcing bans, are analyzed using a PESTEL framework. Visa restrictions in the US Senate immigration bill and changes to UK post-study work visas pose challenges for Indian firms reliant on H-1B and L-1 visas. Tariffs, quotas, subsidies and other policies are described as forms of protectionism pursued by governments. The document hypothesizes that a PESTEL analysis can determine the causes and effects of these protectionist moves
Ftth Europe Feb 11
1. The document discusses the need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to limit global warming to under 2°C, and how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help achieve this goal.
2. ICTs have the potential to indirectly reduce global carbon emissions by up to 15% through technologies like telecommuting, smart energy grids, and e-commerce.
3. The document proposes a "carbon rewards" strategy of providing free high-speed fiber internet connections in exchange for customers paying a premium on their utility bills, and being rewarded for reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint over time.
4. This strategy could provide a more sustainable revenue model for fiber networks compared to traditional
ACC Report on Money/Jobs Created by 97 Petrochemical Projects from Shale Gas
A new report from the American Chemistry Council, titled "Shale Gas, Competitiveness, and New U.S. Chemical Industry Investment—An Analysis of Announced Projects" which examines 97 announced new projects in the petrochemical area directly related to cheap, abundant natural gas supplies from American shale. The report finds these 97 new projects will create 530,000 direct and indirect new jobs and generate an astonishing $71.7 billion in new investment. The economic impact of shale gas, and the miracle of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) cannot be overstated.
Similar to Wayne Gray Presentation - The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness? June 2010 (20)
Getting Research Policy for Food and Agriculture Right
Getting Research Policy for Food and Agriculture Right
Competition Technological Investments Productivity Cusolito Garcia Maloney IM...
Competition Technological Investments Productivity Cusolito Garcia Maloney IM...
EU ETS innovation fund and low-carbon breakthrough technologies
EU ETS innovation fund and low-carbon breakthrough technologies
On the contribution of information and communicationtechnolo.docx
On the contribution of information and communicationtechnolo.docx
A Special Study of Emerging Global Trends in Advanced Manufacturing
A Special Study of Emerging Global Trends in Advanced Manufacturing
Green Talks LIVE | Assessing the Economic Impacts of Environmental Policies
Green Talks LIVE | Assessing the Economic Impacts of Environmental Policies
ACC Report on Money/Jobs Created by 97 Petrochemical Projects from Shale Gas
ACC Report on Money/Jobs Created by 97 Petrochemical Projects from Shale Gas
More from Sustainable Prosperity
William Hogan, Research Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard U...
William Hogan, Research Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard U...Sustainable Prosperity
The document discusses different perspectives on the costs of transitioning to clean energy. It notes that while clean energy technologies are currently more expensive than fossil fuels, their costs are declining over time. There is debate around whether policy should focus on research to lower costs before large-scale deployment, or subsidize current deployment to drive innovation and meet climate goals. The document also summarizes cost estimates from the US Energy Information Administration and notes they have been controversial but provide an important benchmark for analysis.Trigg Talley, U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change
The document outlines the United States' 2025 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 26-28% below 2005 levels. It details examples of existing and new policies across various sectors that will help achieve this target, including the Clean Power Plan, vehicle fuel efficiency standards, methane emission regulations, HFC phasedowns, and forest/wetland protection programs. The target doubles the country's decarbonization pace and is consistent with over 80% reductions by 2050.
Tim Profeta, Director Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
The document provides an overview of the U.S. Clean Power Plan. It discusses the basic structure of the plan, including the best system of emission reduction building blocks and EPA's translation of emissions guidelines into rate and mass forms. It outlines the original compliance timeline and key choices for states in developing plans, such as whether to use a mass-based or rate-based approach. It also discusses ongoing legal challenges to the plan from 27 states and industry groups, as well as potential outcomes and paths forward given various scenarios around the presidential election and court rulings.
Stephanie Cairns, Member, Alberta Climate Leadership Panel
Alberta implemented a new climate policy in November 2015 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to a lower-carbon economy. The policy includes an economy-wide carbon levy, a phase out of coal-fired power by 2030, a cap on oil sands emissions, reduced methane emissions from oil and gas, and an energy efficiency agency. Revenue from the carbon levy will fund renewable energy, green infrastructure, energy efficiency programs, tax cuts, and support for vulnerable groups. The policy aims to make Alberta's energy industry and electricity generation cleaner while incentivizing emissions reductions across the economy.
Peter Nicholson, inaugural President of the Canadian Council of Academics
This document discusses Canada's history of low business innovation and examines factors that have sustained this equilibrium. While Canada has implemented conventional market-centric policies to promote innovation over the past 25 years, business expenditure on R&D and productivity growth have remained disappointing. However, Canadian businesses have matched US corporate profits by focusing more on job growth than innovation. Four emerging trends - developing markets, information technology, sustainability issues, and aging populations - now demand more innovative responses from businesses. The document concludes that innovation policies will only become truly effective when businesses realize they must change their strategies to adapt to these new success factors.
Nic Rivers, Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy, University of...
Nic Rivers, Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy, University of...Sustainable Prosperity
British Columbia implemented a carbon tax in 2008 that has increased over time. The tax raises about $1.2 billion annually, which is used to lower personal and corporate income taxes, making BC's taxes among the lowest. Studies found the tax responsible for a 5-15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions with no impact on overall GDP growth. While some sectors like manufacturing contracted by 5-7%, the tax led to a shift to cleaner sectors and the creation of about 5,000 new jobs per year. The tax was designed to offset costs for low-income households but evidence is mixed on how well it compensates them. Support for the tax has risen over time but remains lowest in older, rural males.Monica Gattinger, Director, Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Univer...
Monica Gattinger, Director, Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Univer...Sustainable Prosperity
This document discusses factors that influence public confidence in energy policy and regulation. It identifies three main issues: "elephants", large policy gaps around climate change and Indigenous rights; "horses", fundamental social and value changes that have occurred; and "sitting ducks", energy decision-making processes that are criticized and undermine confidence. It argues that governments must accept social change, address major policy issues, and strengthen decision-making processes through fair, evidence-based approaches to rebuild public trust in energy governance.Louise Metivier, Chief Negotiator for Climate Change, Environment and Climate...
Louise Metivier, Chief Negotiator for Climate Change, Environment and Climate...Sustainable Prosperity
The document discusses Canada's implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change. It outlines key aspects of the agreement, including limiting global warming to well below 2°C. It also discusses Canada's national climate actions and investments, the development of a pan-Canadian framework on climate and clean growth, and the importance of regional cooperation in North America on climate change issues.Gord Lambert, Suncor Sustainability Executive-in-Residence, Ivey Business Sch...
Gord Lambert, Suncor Sustainability Executive-in-Residence, Ivey Business Sch...Sustainable Prosperity
Gordon Lambert argues that climate change requires integrated climate and energy policy between North American countries. He proposes that countries (1) declare common goals to reduce emissions, (2) define policies and actions to achieve these goals through accelerated collaboration, and (3) allocate joint resources to drive innovation in priority areas like methane reduction and electrifying transportation. Lambert advocates using new collaborative models like COSIA, where energy companies work as a "peloton" to quickly share knowledge and resources toward a common goal of accelerating emissions reductions.Fernando Gonzalez Saiffe, Counselor, Political and Multilateral Affairs
This document outlines Mexico's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change from 2020-2030. Key points include:
- Mexico commits to unconditionally reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 22% and up to 36% conditionally by 2030 compared to business as usual.
- For black carbon, the goals are a 51% reduction unconditionally and up to 70% conditionally by 2030.
- Adaptation priorities include increasing community resilience and infrastructure resilience to climate impacts.
- Conditional goals depend on international market mechanisms for emissions trading and finance/technology from other countries.
- Challenges include detailing sectoral actions,
Duncan Wood, Director, Mexico Institute, The Wilson Centre
Dr. Duncan Wood discusses prospects for trilateral climate policy between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Several factors are driving changes in climate policy across North America: increasingly severe weather, the international consensus around the Paris Agreement, more climate-friendly governments, growth in renewable energy and efficiency technologies. Mexico has undertaken an energy reform to transition to cleaner sources. While emissions profiles vary between the countries, all three recognize the need for cooperation on climate change. The document outlines current bilateral and trilateral climate initiatives and potential future policy paths for North America.
Dirk Forrister, President and CEO, International Emissions Trading Association
Dirk Forrister, President and CEO, International Emissions Trading AssociationSustainable Prosperity
This document discusses the key topics of the Paris Climate Agreement: ambition, cooperation, and opportunity. It summarizes the climate challenges of limiting warming to 1.5-2°C, which will require massive reductions in emissions by 2050. The Paris Agreement provides for international cooperation on carbon markets and recognizes mitigation outcomes can be transferred between countries. Going forward, carbon markets could be enhanced through a centralized UN hub or independent trading clubs to further ambition cost-effectively.David Popp, Syracuse University
The document discusses policy tools for clean innovation. It notes that while renewable energy is growing, significant carbon emission reductions require further technology development and deployment. Market forces provide insufficient incentives for environmentally-friendly technologies due to externalities and public goods problems. Both environmental policy and R&D policy are needed, with environmental policy creating demand for clean technologies to drive innovation, and R&D policy helping to lower costs. A wide range of policy instruments can be used, with market-based ones providing stronger innovation incentives than command-and-control approaches. Government R&D should focus on long-term basic research. Technology transfer depends on demand in recipient countries, with the large U.S. market being key for driving innovation.
Dave Sawyer, Enviro Economics
1. The document discusses different approaches Canada could take in harmonizing its climate policies with the United States, including leading, lagging, or harmonizing. Modeling shows harmonizing through allowance trading leads to lower costs.
2. The impacts of US climate policies on Canada are also examined through modeling. US actions could indirectly reduce Canadian emissions and impact economic sectors differently.
3. The document outlines Canada's fragmented subnational climate policies and notes deeper harmonization across jurisdictions will be needed for deep decarbonization. Continued harmonization of regulations and price signals between Canada and the US is advocated for.
Chris Boivin, Vice President, Investments, Sustainable Development Technology...
Chris Boivin, Vice President, Investments, Sustainable Development Technology...Sustainable Prosperity
SDTC is a Canadian government organization that funds clean technology projects to address climate change, air quality, clean water and land. It has provided over $1 billion in funding to leverage $3.3 billion total for 320 projects. SDTC's approach since 2001 has been to fund a wide range of technologies, identify failures to learn, and help build capacity in the cleantech sector. While markets and policies have changed dramatically, SDTC's diverse portfolio and patience has allowed some technologies to succeed commercially. Lessons learned include the need for business resilience and strong economic value propositions not reliant on carbon policy.Brent Lakeman, Executive Director, Technology Partnerships and Investments, A...
Brent Lakeman, Executive Director, Technology Partnerships and Investments, A...Sustainable Prosperity
The document summarizes Alberta's efforts to accelerate clean technology and innovation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It discusses Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan which focuses on implementing carbon pricing, phasing out coal-generated electricity, limiting oil sands emissions, and reducing methane emissions. The plan will invest $9.6 billion over 5 years in renewable energy, green infrastructure, energy efficiency, and technology diversification to create economic opportunities and meet climate targets.Brendan Haley, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Sustainable Prosperity
Accelerating Clean Innovation in Canada's Energy and Natural Resource Sectors - the Role of Public Policy and Institutions
Blas l. Perez Henriquez, Director, The California - Global Energy, Water and...
Blas l. Perez Henriquez, Director, The California - Global Energy, Water and...Sustainable Prosperity
This document summarizes a presentation on opportunities for clean energy cooperation across North America. It discusses existing climate policies and leadership in California, Mexico, and some Canadian provinces. There is potential to scale up regional collaboration on carbon pricing mechanisms, clean technology innovation, and sustainable infrastructure. Key challenges include the lack of federal climate policy in Canada and the US, but subnational governments and initiatives show promising ways forward for a prosperous low-carbon economy across the continent by 2050.Billy Pizer, Sanford School of Public Policy and Nicholas Institute for Envir...
Billy Pizer, Sanford School of Public Policy and Nicholas Institute for Envir...Sustainable Prosperity
This document summarizes the key differences between state cap-and-trade programs and a federal carbon pricing program. It notes that state programs like California's and RGGI generate billions in annual revenue from auctioning emissions allowances. However, a federal carbon price could reduce revenues for state programs by meeting part of the overall carbon price. The document also cautions that a carbon tax may only qualify as "fiscal reform" if paired with broader tax changes, otherwise it risks being seen as just another tax.Bill Hohenstein, Director, Climate Change Program Office, United State Depart...
Bill Hohenstein, Director, Climate Change Program Office, United State Depart...Sustainable Prosperity
The USDA has set a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors by 120 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually by 2025. This target is part of the US commitment to reduce overall national emissions by 26-28% below 2005 levels. The USDA will pursue this target through a set of "building blocks" that promote practices like soil health, grazing land management, forest conservation, and use of wood products to both reduce emissions and increase carbon storage in lands and forests. Key strategies include partnerships with industry and producers to adopt practices voluntarily with incentive programs. Progress will be measured quantitatively toward specific goals in each building block area.More from Sustainable Prosperity (20)
William Hogan, Research Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard U...
William Hogan, Research Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, Harvard U...
Trigg Talley, U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change
Trigg Talley, U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change
Tim Profeta, Director Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Tim Profeta, Director Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Stephanie Cairns, Member, Alberta Climate Leadership Panel
Stephanie Cairns, Member, Alberta Climate Leadership Panel
Peter Nicholson, inaugural President of the Canadian Council of Academics
Peter Nicholson, inaugural President of the Canadian Council of Academics
Nic Rivers, Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy, University of...
Nic Rivers, Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy, University of...
Monica Gattinger, Director, Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Univer...
Monica Gattinger, Director, Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Univer...
Louise Metivier, Chief Negotiator for Climate Change, Environment and Climate...
Louise Metivier, Chief Negotiator for Climate Change, Environment and Climate...
Gord Lambert, Suncor Sustainability Executive-in-Residence, Ivey Business Sch...
Gord Lambert, Suncor Sustainability Executive-in-Residence, Ivey Business Sch...
Fernando Gonzalez Saiffe, Counselor, Political and Multilateral Affairs
Fernando Gonzalez Saiffe, Counselor, Political and Multilateral Affairs
Duncan Wood, Director, Mexico Institute, The Wilson Centre
Duncan Wood, Director, Mexico Institute, The Wilson Centre
Dirk Forrister, President and CEO, International Emissions Trading Association
Dirk Forrister, President and CEO, International Emissions Trading Association
Chris Boivin, Vice President, Investments, Sustainable Development Technology...
Chris Boivin, Vice President, Investments, Sustainable Development Technology...
Brent Lakeman, Executive Director, Technology Partnerships and Investments, A...
Brent Lakeman, Executive Director, Technology Partnerships and Investments, A...
Brendan Haley, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Sustainable Prosperity
Brendan Haley, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Sustainable Prosperity
Blas l. Perez Henriquez, Director, The California - Global Energy, Water and...
Blas l. Perez Henriquez, Director, The California - Global Energy, Water and...
Billy Pizer, Sanford School of Public Policy and Nicholas Institute for Envir...
Billy Pizer, Sanford School of Public Policy and Nicholas Institute for Envir...
Bill Hohenstein, Director, Climate Change Program Office, United State Depart...
Bill Hohenstein, Director, Climate Change Program Office, United State Depart...
Recently uploaded
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-Efficiency
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena Syrota
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin Goedecke
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
JavaLand 2024: Application Development Green Masterplan
My presentation slides I used at JavaLand 2024
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Data Scientists and Bioinformaticians
Dmitrii Kamaev, PhD
Senior Product Owner - QIAGEN
GNSS spoofing via SDR (Criptored Talks 2024)
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity server
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdf
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSF
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE Vision
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE Roles
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Recently uploaded (20)
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-Efficiency
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-Efficiency
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin Goedecke
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin Goedecke
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024
JavaLand 2024: Application Development Green Masterplan
JavaLand 2024: Application Development Green Masterplan
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Data Scientists and Bioinformaticians
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Data Scientists and Bioinformaticians
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity server
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity server
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdf
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdf
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSF
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSF
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...
Wayne Gray Presentation - The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness? June 2010
- 1. The Porter Hypothesis at 20: The Effect of Environmental Regulation (ER) on Productivity and Competitiveness Wayne Gray Economics Department, Clark University Porter at 20 - June-28-2010