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Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy
This report summarizes a workshop—Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The presentations and discussions summarized here describe the types of scientific information necessary to make informed decisions to eliminate the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) banned under the Stockholm Convention, sources of information; scientifically informed strategies for eliminating POPs, elements of good scientific advice, such as transparency, peer review, and disclosure of conflicts of interest; and information dealing with POPs that decision makers need from the scientific community, including next steps to make such science available and ensure its use on a continuing basis.

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Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy
This report summarizes a workshop—Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The presentations and discussions summarized here describe the types of scientific information necessary to make informed decisions to eliminate the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) banned under the Stockholm Convention, sources of information; scientifically informed strategies for eliminating POPs, elements of good scientific advice, such as transparency, peer review, and disclosure of conflicts of interest; and information dealing with POPs that decision makers need from the scientific community, including next steps to make such science available and ensure its use on a continuing basis.

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Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

Overview

This report summarizes a workshop—Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The presentations and discussions summarized here describe the types of scientific information necessary to make informed decisions to eliminate the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) banned under the Stockholm Convention, sources of information; scientifically informed strategies for eliminating POPs, elements of good scientific advice, such as transparency, peer review, and disclosure of conflicts of interest; and information dealing with POPs that decision makers need from the scientific community, including next steps to make such science available and ensure its use on a continuing basis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780309102209
Publisher: National Academies Press
Publication date: 02/19/2007
Pages: 164
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Preface xi

List of Acronyms xvii

Overview of the Findings and Recommendations 1

I Introduction 11

II Findings and Recommendations 17

III Summary Of The NRC Conferences On The New Economy 61

Moore's Law and the New Economy 64

Raising the Speed Limit 64

The Role of Moore's Law 65

Measuring the New Economy 68

The Challenge of Measurement 69

Modeling the Productivity and Cyclicality of the Semiconductor Industry 71

Semiconductors and the New Economy 72

Explaining Productivity and Cyclicality in the Semiconductor Industry 73

A Possible Model of the Semiconductor Industry 75

Deconstructing the Computer: Measuring Computer Hardware Performance 76

Developing Hedonic Price Indexes 77

Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for Hedonic Pricing 78

Measuring Software Performance 81

Measurement Challenges: The Complexity of Software 82

Tracking Software in National Accounts 83

Gauging Private Fixed Software Investment 84

Tracking Software Price Changes 87

Measuring Telecom Prices 87

Towards Improved Measures of the New Economy 90

Sustaining the New Economy 90

Challenges to Sustaining Moore's Law 90

Overcoming Technological Brick Walls 91

Resource Challenges to Sustaining Moore's Law 92

Strategies to Sustain Moore's Law 94

Cooperative Ventures in Semiconductor Research 94

Expanding the Use of Technology Roadmaps 95

Software and the New Economy 98

Making Software More Robust Against Errors and Attacks 100

Enhancing Software Reliability 101

The Software Labor Market and the Offshoring Impetus 102

Potential Impacts of Offshoring on Future U.S. Innovative Capacities 105

The Telecommunications Challenge109

Communications Technology: A Vision of the Future 109

Sustaining the New Economy: The Broadband Challenge 113

The End of Stovepiping 122

Intellectual Property in the Era of Digital Distribution 124

The Challenge for Regulation 126

Towards a New Agenda of Research 126

The Future of the New Economy 127

IV Bibliography 131

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