1.6. Intersektorale Verflechtung von Technologiegebern und -nehmern in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

The Effects Of New Technologies On Employment

“…A theoretically and empirically innovative aspect that was implemented within the scope of this investigation was the Downloaded by [University of Liverpool] at 23:44 02 January 2015 NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND EMPLOYMENT 133 elaboration of a technology flow matrix that takes account of both direct generation of knowhow and indirect technology flow between sectors of the Federal Republic of Germany's economy. Such a matrix reveals much about the technology content of the final demand components (private consumption, investments, export, public consumption) and also about which branches of industry mainly receive their technical knowledge from other sectors (Meyer-Krahmer and Wessels, 1989). Beyond this, the indirect expenditures for sectoral research and development ascertainable with the help of this matrix enter into the disaggregated model as a technology variable.…”

“…The figures cited for the even years from 1972 on have been derived by interpolation of the expenditures for the odd years in order to obtain a complete series of figures on R&D expenditures for calculation of R&D capital stock (cf. Meyer-Krahmer and Wessels, 1989).…”