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The incidence of technical progress on investments

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Investment in Uncertainty

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In latter years creativity is one of the elements, which has burst upon the economic field with the greatest impact. Modern techniques, drawn up for natural stimulus of the imagination1, have been divulged in an environment that is favourable to innovative work as, businessmen and managers become aware that the survival of companies and institutions will only be possible with the strengthening of research activity aimed at obtaining new products, new processes and new organisations, permitting differentiating results (products and services, for example) and/or results that are economically more advantageous.

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  1. See, for example, A. Kaufmann, J. Gil Aluja and A. M. Gil Lafuente: La creatividad en la gestión de las empresas, Pirámide, Madrid, 1994.

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  2. J. Gil Aluja: Inversiones, Certeza, riesgo e incertidumbre. I. Certeza, Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Barcelona, 1992, pages 76–84.

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  3. Stephen Enke: Economía para el desarrollo, Uteha, Mexico, 1966, page 77.

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  4. Stephen Enke: Economía para el desarrollo, Uteha, Mexico, 1966, page 120.

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  5. The necessary rounding off to three decimal figures does not allow regularity in the numbers and moving through the different levels.

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  6. Just remember that to divide intervals in the field of R +, it is sufficient to cross the extremes.

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Gil-Aluja, J. (1999). The incidence of technical progress on investments. In: Investment in Uncertainty. Applied Optimization, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5328-7_10

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