The Effectiveness of Government Promotion of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT): An Economic Analysis Based on Swiss Micro Data

This paper describes the approach applied and the results of an evaluation of the effects of the Swiss government programme to promote the diffusion of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) from 1990 to 1996. The method used is based on specifying and econometrically estimating with firm data si...

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Published inSmall business economics Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 321 - 340
Main Authors Arvanitis, Spyros, Hollenstein, Heinz, Lenz, Stephan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.12.2002
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Advanced manufacturing technologies
Business studies
Capital costs
Coefficients
Data analysis
Econometrics
Economic analysis
Economic models
Economics
Emerging technology
Government
Government programs
High cost technology
Industrial policy
Information technology
Innovation adoption
Innovations
Manufacturing
Organizational change
Production management
R&D
Research & development
Studies
Switzerland
Technological change
Technological innovation
Technology
Technology adoption
Technology policy
Variables
Switzerland
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Summary:This paper describes the approach applied and the results of an evaluation of the effects of the Swiss government programme to promote the diffusion of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) from 1990 to 1996. The method used is based on specifying and econometrically estimating with firm data simultaneously an adoption equation which, besides the main explanatory variables as proposed by the theory of technology diffusion, includes a policy variable, and a policy equation with a set of firm characteristics and an adoption variable as regressors. The results are consistent with a positive impact of promotion on adoption of AMT, particularly a more intensive adoption of AMT for firms which did not use AMT when the programme started.
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ISSN:0921-898X
1573-0913
DOI:10.1023/A:1019606131837