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What is technological advance

Broadly defined, technological advance: A) can occur in either the short run, long run, or very long run. B) comprises new and improved goods and services and new and improved ways of producing or distributing them. C) includes invention, but not innovation or diffusion. D) includes product innovation, but not process innovation.

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