Hans‐Jürgen Engelbrecht
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6277110 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hans‐Jürgen Engelbrecht |
| PRENOMES | Hans‐Jürgen |
| SOBRENOME | Engelbrecht |
| ASSINATURA | ENGELBRECHT H J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0209-1087 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The (social) innovation – subjective well-being nexus
It cannot be assumed that technological innovations and social innovations are desirable per se. An innovation usually has positive as well as negative impacts on people, making its normative assessment a major research challenge. This has become increasingly recognized in the innovation literature. At the same time, subjective well-being (SWB) research has developed and matured largely independently of innovation studies. This paper puts forward…
Comprehensive versus inclusive wealth accounting and the assessment of sustainable development
Information, capital, well-being
Don Lamberton asked many questions about the nature and role of information, without expecting to be able to provide tidy or neat answers. The issues he raised have not gone away or been resolved. Some have re-appeared in modified or new form. This paper first focuses on the analysis of information at the macro-level, starting with the ill-fated ‘information sector’ studies and leading on to current attempts to use neoclassical economics to measu…
Hamlet without the prince
Many governments are going ‘beyond GDP’ to measure standards of living and to base policy on such wider considerations. One of the more advanced approaches is the Living Standards Framework used by the New Zealand Treasury as a complementary input into the policy process. This paper uses the Framework as a case study to highlight shortcomings and unresolved theoretical and empirical issues in the underlying theoretical model (i.e., the capital ap…
Wired for innovation
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2010, xvii+154 pp., US$18.95, ISBN 978‐0‐262‐01366‐6 This slim volume, written by one of the foremost researchers on IT and product
Pathological Knowledge‐Based Economies
The crisis that started on Wall Street in mid‐2007 and that has turned into a global financial and economic crisis is also a crisis of knowledge‐based economies (KBEs). In fact, it is related to intrinsic features of such economies. The central point argued in this paper is the need for a specific knowledge‐based economy perspective on the crisis that takes human nature seriously, i.e. that incorporates psychological factors like Keynes’ ‘animal …
Natural capital, subjective well-being, and the new welfare economics of sustainability
The (Un)Happiness of Knowledge and the Knowledge of (Un)Happiness
This paper explores the current state and interfaces of two broad policy discourses, i.e. that of policies for knowledge‐based economies (KBEs) and policy implications of happiness research, which so far have exhibited little explicit cross‐referencing. I first review the state of ‘mainstream’ knowledge policy associated with the OECD, the related but somewhat separate literature on information society indicators, and some ‘non‐mainstream’ knowle…
ICT Research, the New Economy, and the Evolving Discipline of Economics
Economics-related ICT research has moved from the fringes of the discipline to penetrate all of its branches. It is, therefore, not a separate economics subdiscipline. It is also unlikely to become part of an “ICT or Internet research” proto-discipline. Instead, it should be seen as only one part of a bigger agenda toward a proper “information and knowledge economics” and possibly a future proto-discipline of a “unified theory of information and …
Gender and the Information Work Force
This paper documents the growth and gender composition of New Zealand's information work force over the period 1976‐96. By 1996, about 55% of the female work force was employed in information occupations, compared to 40% of the male work force. The share of high-skilled information workers increased substantially over time, and faster for females than males. This suggests faster upskilling of the female information work force. The paper also brie…
Gender and the Information Work Force
This paper documents the growth and gender composition of New Zealand's information work force over the period 1976‐96. By 1996, about 55% of the female work force was employed in information occupations, compared to 40% of the male work force. The share of high-skilled information workers increased substantially over time, and faster for females than males. This suggests faster upskilling of the female information work force. The paper also brie…
Towards a Knowledge Economy? Changes in New Zealand's Information Work Force 1976‐1996
The New Zealand economy has undergone tremendous change since 1984, being transformed from one of the most regulated OECD economies to one of the most deregulated. Recently, the concept of a 'knowledge economy' has received attention in New Zealand, and policies are now aimed at creating such an economy. This study contributes to the debate by exploring the changes in the country's information work force in recent decades, and by attempting to re…
A Comparative Macro-level Assessment of New Zealand's ‘National Innovation System’
It has been argued that the power of the concept of a ‘National Innovation System’ (NIS) lies in its comparative nature. Adopting this viewpoint, we provide a comparative snapshot of New Zealand's NIS. Using macro-level indicators to measure innovation, knowledge absorption and diffusion, we compare the performance of New Zealand with that of other OECD economies. The data indicate that New Zealand continues to have a weak NIS, despite major chan…
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Information Services, Private Bureaucracies, and Japan's Comparative Advantage
This note investigates the determinants of Japan's manufacturing trade structure in 1980. They include variables derived from an information economy perspective as well as traditional trade variables. Estimates for variables approximating organizational inefficiency indicate that even in Japan, which is reported to often have smaller private bureaucracies than the United States, relatively large bureaucracies have a negative effect on trade perfo…
A comparative analysis of the use of information inputs in the manufacturing sectors of Korea and Japan
Information resources in U.S. manufacturing
Previous production function studies analysing the use of information inputs in U.S. manufacturing seem to indicate their large underuse and, implicitly, advocate a policy of increased investment in such inputs. In the present study the degree of underuse of information inputs is reassessed by using techniques similar to those applied in the earlier studies and by using more comprehensive and appropriate alternative methods, i.e. estimating trans…
An Exposition of the Information Sector Approach With Special Reference to Australia
This paper provides an exposition of the information sector approach. Concept and measurement of the information sector are discussed in detail. Findings for Australia are reported, including so far unpublished data on the labour force employed in the primary and secondary information sector. The total information sector accounted for about 41.5 per cent of the Australian labour force and about 31 per cent of value added in 1981. More than half o…
Information resources in U.S. manufacturing
Previous production function studies analysing the use of information inputs in U.S. manufacturing seem to indicate their large underuse and, implicitly, advocate a policy of increased investment in such inputs. In the present study the degree of underuse of information inputs is reassessed by using techniques similar to those applied in the earlier studies and by using more comprehensive and appropriate alternative methods, i.e. estimating trans…
An Exposition of the Information Sector Approach With Special Reference to Australia
This paper provides an exposition of the information sector approach. Concept and measurement of the information sector are discussed in detail. Findings for Australia are reported, including so far unpublished data on the labour force employed in the primary and secondary information sector. The total information sector accounted for about 41.5 per cent of the Australian labour force and about 31 per cent of value added in 1981. More than half o…
Information resources in U.S. manufacturing
Previous production function studies analysing the use of information inputs in U.S. manufacturing seem to indicate their large underuse and, implicitly, advocate a policy of increased investment in such inputs. In the present study the degree of underuse of information inputs is reassessed by using techniques similar to those applied in the earlier studies and by using more comprehensive and appropriate alternative methods, i.e. estimating trans…
A comparative analysis of the use of information inputs in the manufacturing sectors of Korea and Japan
Information Services, Private Bureaucracies, and Japan's Comparative Advantage
This note investigates the determinants of Japan's manufacturing trade structure in 1980. They include variables derived from an information economy perspective as well as traditional trade variables. Estimates for variables approximating organizational inefficiency indicate that even in Japan, which is reported to often have smaller private bureaucracies than the United States, relatively large bureaucracies have a negative effect on trade perfo…
Shorter Notice
ISl1N aoailable
A Comparative Macro-level Assessment of New Zealand's ‘National Innovation System’
It has been argued that the power of the concept of a ‘National Innovation System’ (NIS) lies in its comparative nature. Adopting this viewpoint, we provide a comparative snapshot of New Zealand's NIS. Using macro-level indicators to measure innovation, knowledge absorption and diffusion, we compare the performance of New Zealand with that of other OECD economies. The data indicate that New Zealand continues to have a weak NIS, despite major chan…
Towards a Knowledge Economy? Changes in New Zealand's Information Work Force 1976‐1996
The New Zealand economy has undergone tremendous change since 1984, being transformed from one of the most regulated OECD economies to one of the most deregulated. Recently, the concept of a 'knowledge economy' has received attention in New Zealand, and policies are now aimed at creating such an economy. This study contributes to the debate by exploring the changes in the country's information work force in recent decades, and by attempting to re…
Gender and the Information Work Force
This paper documents the growth and gender composition of New Zealand's information work force over the period 1976‐96. By 1996, about 55% of the female work force was employed in information occupations, compared to 40% of the male work force. The share of high-skilled information workers increased substantially over time, and faster for females than males. This suggests faster upskilling of the female information work force. The paper also brie…
Gender and the Information Work Force
This paper documents the growth and gender composition of New Zealand's information work force over the period 1976‐96. By 1996, about 55% of the female work force was employed in information occupations, compared to 40% of the male work force. The share of high-skilled information workers increased substantially over time, and faster for females than males. This suggests faster upskilling of the female information work force. The paper also brie…
ICT Research, the New Economy, and the Evolving Discipline of Economics
Economics-related ICT research has moved from the fringes of the discipline to penetrate all of its branches. It is, therefore, not a separate economics subdiscipline. It is also unlikely to become part of an “ICT or Internet research” proto-discipline. Instead, it should be seen as only one part of a bigger agenda toward a proper “information and knowledge economics” and possibly a future proto-discipline of a “unified theory of information and …
The (Un)Happiness of Knowledge and the Knowledge of (Un)Happiness
This paper explores the current state and interfaces of two broad policy discourses, i.e. that of policies for knowledge‐based economies (KBEs) and policy implications of happiness research, which so far have exhibited little explicit cross‐referencing. I first review the state of ‘mainstream’ knowledge policy associated with the OECD, the related but somewhat separate literature on information society indicators, and some ‘non‐mainstream’ knowle…
Pathological Knowledge‐Based Economies
The crisis that started on Wall Street in mid‐2007 and that has turned into a global financial and economic crisis is also a crisis of knowledge‐based economies (KBEs). In fact, it is related to intrinsic features of such economies. The central point argued in this paper is the need for a specific knowledge‐based economy perspective on the crisis that takes human nature seriously, i.e. that incorporates psychological factors like Keynes’ ‘animal …
Natural capital, subjective well-being, and the new welfare economics of sustainability
Wired for innovation
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2010, xvii+154 pp., US$18.95, ISBN 978‐0‐262‐01366‐6 This slim volume, written by one of the foremost researchers on IT and product
Hamlet without the prince
Many governments are going ‘beyond GDP’ to measure standards of living and to base policy on such wider considerations. One of the more advanced approaches is the Living Standards Framework used by the New Zealand Treasury as a complementary input into the policy process. This paper uses the Framework as a case study to highlight shortcomings and unresolved theoretical and empirical issues in the underlying theoretical model (i.e., the capital ap…
Information, capital, well-being
Don Lamberton asked many questions about the nature and role of information, without expecting to be able to provide tidy or neat answers. The issues he raised have not gone away or been resolved. Some have re-appeared in modified or new form. This paper first focuses on the analysis of information at the macro-level, starting with the ill-fated ‘information sector’ studies and leading on to current attempts to use neoclassical economics to measu…
Comprehensive versus inclusive wealth accounting and the assessment of sustainable development
The (social) innovation – subjective well-being nexus
It cannot be assumed that technological innovations and social innovations are desirable per se. An innovation usually has positive as well as negative impacts on people, making its normative assessment a major research challenge. This has become increasingly recognized in the innovation literature. At the same time, subjective well-being (SWB) research has developed and matured largely independently of innovation studies. This paper puts forward…
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