Sectoral Approach to the Drivers of Productivity Growth in Poland
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The report presents the main
structural characteristics of the sectors included in the
Technology Adoption Survey (TAS) implemented in Poland and
provides sectoral TAS results for general and
sector-specific business functions, comparing Poland to a
peer country, Korea. Nine sectors analyzed within TAS
include agriculture, food processing, wearing apparel, motor
vehicles, pharmaceuticals, basic metals, wholesale and
retail trade, financial services, and land transport. These
form a selection of the most important economic industries
in agriculture, manufacturing, and services. The same
sectors were chosen in all countries where TAS was
implemented because of their important contributions to the
national economies as well as their diversity, which allowed
us to identify the different natures of their technological
needs and the barriers to technology adoption. Sectors in
Poland differ in technology sophistication in both general
business and sector-specific functions but, to a large
extent, those differences are driven by the sectors’
structural differences, such as the number of large firms,
the share of exporters, and the number foreign-owned
enterprises. Firms in different sectors face different
economic conditions and are exposed to a different balance
of regulatory, environmental, and geopolitical risks and
challenges. Understanding those sectoral differences,
especially as they affect the use of sector-specific
technologies, is of utmost importance, because productivity
improvements historically have been driven primarily by
capital-intensive investment, which often involves
sector-specific technologies. In the context of
sector-specific technologies, it is worth noting that the
level of sophistication differs between sectors. Comparing
technology trends across sectors is beyond the scope of this
report, however; rather, here we closely follow the
methodology described in Bridging the Technological Divide:
Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries.
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TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION SURVEY, INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY COMPARISON, SECTOR-SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY, IT ADOPTION, PRODUCTIVITY DRIVERS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRENDS