关键词:
technology
government support
evaluation
microeconomics
摘要:
Manufacturing modernization programs are designed to improve the competitiveness of small- and medium-sized manufacturers by accelerating their use of best-practice technologies. Justification for these programs is most often cast in terms of past slow rates of adoption, international economic competitiveness, and market failures in the provision of information. These frameworks, however, do not adequately address policy and programmatic issues related to program design, financing, and program evaluation. Using a microeconomic model based on the firm- and industry-level effects of these programs, we examine the importance of spillover benefits from modernization efforts, both horizontal spillovers to rivals of program clients and vertical spillovers to clients' customers, and the implications for these policy and programmatic issues. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.