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Suggested Citation:"I ProceedingsWelcome." National Research Council. 2004. Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors: Trends, Implications, and Questions: Report of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11134.
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Suggested Citation:"I ProceedingsWelcome." National Research Council. 2004. Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors: Trends, Implications, and Questions: Report of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11134.
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Welcome

Ira A. Jackson

Harvard University

Dr. Jackson welcomed the participants from the National Research Council, the business sector, several universities, and other organizations, and he offered a brief description of the mission of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He said that the Center tries to align business with industry and to match market efficiencies with society’s other, competing demands “for equitable outcomes in a process that gains legitimacy and trust.”

He praised Dale Jorgenson for his contributions to this area of study and for leading a program in technology, economy, and productivity at the Kennedy School for the past 17 years. Over that period, he said, Dr. Jorgenson’s program had produced some “20 serious volumes which have had an impact on intellectual and academic understanding of markets, productivity, efficiency, and tax policy,” as well as an important impact on the private sector and on public-sector decision making. He noted that the topic of the day, the semiconductor industry, is critical to all of these areas and has been driving the efficiency, productivity, and growth of the U.S. economy. That economy, he noted, appeared to have lost momentum, and so “we need to apply as much productivity and technological innovation as ever before.”

Suggested Citation:"I ProceedingsWelcome." National Research Council. 2004. Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors: Trends, Implications, and Questions: Report of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11134.
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Suggested Citation:"I ProceedingsWelcome." National Research Council. 2004. Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors: Trends, Implications, and Questions: Report of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11134.
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Suggested Citation:"I ProceedingsWelcome." National Research Council. 2004. Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors: Trends, Implications, and Questions: Report of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11134.
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Hosted by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, this symposium brought together leading technologists and economists to review technical challenges facing the semiconductor industry, the industry’s business cycle, the interconnections between the two, and the implications of growth in semiconductors for the economy as a whole. This volume includes a summary of the symposium proceedings and three major research papers. Topics reviewed encompass the industry technology roadmap, challenges to be overcome to maintain the trajectory of Moore’s Law, the drivers of the continued growth in productivity in the U.S. economy, and economic models for gaining a better understanding of this leading U.S. industry.

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