Angus C. Chu’s research while affiliated with University of Macau and other places

... 7 SeeAshraf and Galor (2018) for a comprehensive survey of this literature. 8Chu, Peretto and Furukawa (2024) explore the endogenous transition of human society from multiple states to a unified empire in an agricultural Malthusian economy. 9 Appendix A considers a more general land-division rule. ...

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Human brain evolution in a Malthusian economy

... In the R&D sector, when a successful project is produced, it is supplied to a new monopoly firm, which patents it. In addition to the baseline model from [2,3], the Tourism sector draws from the domestic aggregate output, consumed by the inflow of tourists, exogenous to the domestic economy (following [16]). It allows the R&D sector to benefit from a higher likelihood of successful R&D innovations. ...

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Is tourism the new Dutch disease? Impacts on wages, sectorial competitiveness and economic growth

... Specifically, Piketty and his coauthors challenged the reliance on technology in explaining inequality changes [21][22][23]. Based on evidence from France, Australia, Canada, Britain, and the US in the 20 th century, they find that social norms (implicit rules) and institutional arrangements (explicit rules) in distribution (e.g., union) and redistribution (e.g., taxation) can play more important roles in shaping inequality [24][25][26]. Nevertheless, most studies are based on postwar evidence, and few have been devoted to long-term interdependence between growth and inequality over several centuries [25]. ...

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Long-term wage inequality in imperial China: From 202 BCE to 1912 CE

... Export influences economic growth according to many theories and researchers (Sultanuzzaman, 2019;Marjit & Ray 2017;Hagemejer & Muck 2019;Yilmaz, 2022). The studies conducted prove that a country's International Entrepreneurship Review R I E high export has a positive impact on the higher growth rate of country's output per capita (Chu et al., 2023). Because of the globalization process, international trade, especially export has been treated as the main factor that impacts economic growth. ...

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Systematic literature review on the relation between export and economic growth

... Archaeological evidence suggests that Homo sapiens, who had been hunter-gatherers for the majority of their existence, began to transition to agriculture only 12,000 years ago (Chu & Xu, 2023). During this period, known as the Neolithic, humans discovered that they could control the growth and reproduction of specific plants and animals. ...

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Analyses on the anthropocene from anthropology to philosophy

... 5 A seminal study in this literature by Galor and Moav (2002) explores how natural selection and the quality-quantity trade-off of children affect the transition of an economy from pre-industrial stagnation to modern economic growth; 6 see also the interesting studies by Lagerlof (2007) and Dalgaard and Strulik (2015) on the selection of human body mass, Galor and Michalopoulos (2012) on the selection of entrepreneurial spirit, Galor and Ozak (2016) on the selection of future-oriented mindset, and Galor and Klemp (2019) on the selection of child quality. 7 A recent study by Chu (2023) explores natural selection and the extinction of archaic human species in a hunting-gathering Malthusian economy. Another related study by Chu and Xu (2024) explores the subsequent transitions of human society from hunting-gathering to agriculture and then from agriculture to industrial production also in a Malthusian economy. ...

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Human brain evolution in a Malthusian economy

... Similarly, Murati-Leka and Fetai (2023) support the finding of Islam (2015) that a large share of government spending to support businesses results in high innovativeness among ICT firms in Kosovo. Also, government subsidies for R&D increases innovation and growth in the United States (Chu, 2023). Although female-led firms are less innovative; Audretsch et al. (2022) find that female entrepreneurs become more innovative as a country's fiscal freedom improves. ...

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INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSIONS AND ALLOCATION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TALENTS TOWARD INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY IN NIGERIA

... Traditionally lagging behind in adopting digital technologies, the sector is currently digitalizing at a rapid pace [1][2][3][4]. Since its start in the 1980s and 1990s, digitalization in agriculture has evolved from single computer and limited information sources to more advanced systems [5][6][7][8]. These advancements in digitalization have led to and enabled smart farming [9][10][11]. ...

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Challenges and Solution Directions for the Integration of Smart Information Systems in the Agri-Food Sector

... Patents serve as a storehouse of innovative solutions, documenting significant technological advancements and milestones safeguarded as intellectual property and informing subsequent innovations. 17,18 Alternative methodologies, including design thinking and lean innovation, are effective solely within iterative and user-centred environments, as they need more systematic instruments to address deep technical conflicts frequently encountered in materials science and engineering. The innovation trajectory of SMPs demonstrates that most efforts are centred on industrialised nations, whereas emerging markets still need to be explored. ...

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Accelerating high‐value innovation with TRIZ patent literature review: validation study for shape‐memory polymers and smart materials

... The existing literature on Schumpeterian innovations is based exclusively on the assumption that new entrepreneurs can create new ideas to develop products that often disrupt an existing market (Mathews, 2018;Chu et al., 2020;Feng, 2019). However, "creative destruction," as championed by Schumpeter, manifests not only in the application of new ideas but also through appropriate and innovative service delivery to society. ...

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Chain upgrading, technology transfer, and legitimacy: The Schumpeterian character of China in the information and communication technology sector in SSA