Module 3.3 Capital and Innovation
(Development in progress)
What policies generate growth, how should growth be measured, and how does this impact employment and prosperity?
Introduction
A few paragraphs about the subject…
Learning objectives
- • Understand engineering interactions with the economy
- • Understand science and technology interactions with culture (values, attitudes, beliefs)
- • Explain the link between policy and politics
Required reading (372)
This is the stuff students must read; not more than an hour or two for the 372 class
Other links and references (374)
- • Cudworth, Senker and Walker (2013)
- • (see also module 3.1 technical advances and society)
- • Ford (2015) technology and threat of jobless future; accelerating tech as disruptor
- • Freeman (2002) innovation and growth; regional differences
- • Gordijn and Chadwick (2008) posthumanity, see also Harari (2016) homo deus
- • Gummett and Reppy (1988) Not much evidence of spin-offs; an expensive way to develop tech, if that’s the aim
- • Weiss (2014) America, Inc? – tech ascendancy comes from public sector defence investment
- • Mazzucato (2014) states are the origins of innovation; private sector is a parasite
- • Autor, Levy, Murnane (2003) computer capacity substitutes for workers doing repetitive skilled calculations following explicit rules, demonstrates utility of modelling employment impacts
- • A year later, Manning (2004) assesses low skilled work dependent on high-skilled work, but vulnerable…
- • But a decade after Autor and Manning, Standing (2014) identifies a much larger problem
- • Not unprecedented—luddites, industrial revolution, etc (Standing, 2014; Becker, 2019)
- • Internet of things driven by Business (Becker, 2019) with dangers (Zuboff)
- • Platform capitalism (Srnicek, 2017) dislocates workers from employers
- • Acs and Varga (2002) Special issue—see individual articles on
- • Doloreux and Parto (2005) regional innovation systems depend on contiguity and institutions
- • Piva and Vivarelli (2017) in EU, R&D spending leads to high tech jobs, but capital formation kills jobs – no shit!
- • Block (2018) major reforms on the scale of the New Deal and post WW2 institution-building are needed to repair a dysfunctional system
- • CCPA report on impact of corporate tax cuts (2011) - they sit on the cash rather than investing
Application to defence capabilities
- • Brooks (2007) creating military power
- • Edgar (2001) neighborliness and politicization of defence integration
- • Engler (2016) Canada’s military-industrial complex propaganda & militarization
- • Edwards (2011) cross-border defence procurement in the EU
- • Faleg and Giovanni (2012) pooling and sharing vs. smart defence, EU
Presentations
Lecture 1
A short description of what is included
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Lecture 2
A short description of what is included
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Seminar (for POE374, optional for POE372)
Key question in the seminar