technological progressiveness

Fig. 182 Technological progressiveness. (a) The fall in a firm's long-run average cost curve from AC₁ to AC₂ as a result of technological advance. (b) Advances in computer technology. The time and cost for a computer to process 1,700 typical data-processing operations. Source: IBM, cited in Financial Times, 15 February 1991.

technological progressiveness

an aspect of MARKET PERFORMANCE that denotes the extent to which firms develop and introduce new and improved products, production and distribution techniques. Radical INVENTIONS and INNOVATIONS may make it possible to reduce manufacturing and distribution costs, thereby permitting a lowering of the supply price to the consumer. See Fig. 182 (a) . In the theory of costs, firms are assumed to operate within existing technological boundaries in both the SHORT RUN and the LONG RUN, but in the VERY LONG RUN, technological progressiveness serves to change the underlying cost conditions. For example, Fig. 182 (b) shows how the time and

cost to undertake a particular data-processing activity has been reduced by improvements in computer technology Technological progressiveness in aggregate terms affects a country's rate of ECONOMIC GROWTH. (See ECONOMIC GROWTH for further discussion.) See also MONOPOLY, PRODUCT PERFORMANCE, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, SOLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL, TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT, PRODUCTIVITY, AUTOMATION.

单词	technological progressiveness
释义	technological progressiveness Fig. 182 Technological progressiveness. (a) The fall in a firm's long-run average cost curve from AC₁ to AC₂ as a result of technological advance. (b) Advances in computer technology. The time and cost for a computer to process 1,700 typical data-processing operations. Source: IBM, cited in Financial Times, 15 February 1991. technological progressiveness an aspect of MARKET PERFORMANCE that denotes the extent to which firms develop and introduce new and improved products, production and distribution techniques. Radical INVENTIONS and INNOVATIONS may make it possible to reduce manufacturing and distribution costs, thereby permitting a lowering of the supply price to the consumer. See Fig. 182 (a) . In the theory of costs, firms are assumed to operate within existing technological boundaries in both the SHORT RUN and the LONG RUN, but in the VERY LONG RUN, technological progressiveness serves to change the underlying cost conditions. For example, Fig. 182 (b) shows how the time and cost to undertake a particular data-processing activity has been reduced by improvements in computer technology Technological progressiveness in aggregate terms affects a country's rate of ECONOMIC GROWTH. (See ECONOMIC GROWTH for further discussion.) See also MONOPOLY, PRODUCT PERFORMANCE, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, SOLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL, TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT, PRODUCTIVITY, AUTOMATION.
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