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Does technical progress rule economics or other way round?

Does technical progress rule economics or other way round?. In the past…. …now. Is laziness the engine of progress?. 1901 The airplanes are amusing toys, but they are worthless for military objectives. French marshal Ferdinand Foch. 1943

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Does technical progress rule economics or other way round?

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  1. Does technical progress rule economics or other way round? In the past… …now

  2. Is laziness the engine of progress?

  3. 1901 The airplanes are amusing toys, but they are worthless for military objectives. French marshal Ferdinand Foch 1943 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.chairman of IBM Thomas Watson on seeing the first mainframe computer

  4. As for economically sound the names of technical progress innovators are often unimportant.

  5. Nowadays market winners are people who • can ably unite scientific achievements and economical principles • take the lead • can combine factors of production in new special way • clearly understand the significance of technical progress and can efficiently motivate it

  6. entrepreneurs These people are

  7. Microsoft

  8. Standard Oil Company

  9. Ford Motor Company

  10. Swarowski AG

  11. Uniting both technical progress and economics we get difficult process which is divided into three stages:

  12. The creation of new product or production technique and receipt/receiving the first proof of its viability is the invention. What if…?

  13. The innovation is the first successful adoption of a new product, new production technique or creation of new business forms.

  14. The last stage is diffusion when companies start to copy the most successful innovations.

  15. International diffusion of technical progress enable to develop our world as fast as it can possibly happen.

  16. Thank you!

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