To stay with the lingo (also, is "arguendo" your new catchphrase?): There are worlds in which slower economic growth is good news, and worlds in which it's not. As to which of these contribute more probability mass, that's hard -- because the actual measure would be technological growth, for which economic growth can be a proxy.

However, I find it hard to weigh scenarios such as "because of stagnant and insufficient growth, more resources are devoted to exploiting the remaining inefficiencies using more advanced tech" versus "the worldwide economic upswing caused a flurry of research activities".

R&D, especially foundational work, is such a small part of worldwide GDP that any old effect can dominate it. For example, a "cold war"-ish scenario between China and the US would slow economic growth -- but strongly speedup research in high-tech dual-use technologies.

While we often think "Google" when we think tech research, we should mostly think DoD in terms of resources spent -- state actors traditionally dwarf even multinational corporations in research investments, and whether their investements are spurned or spurred by a slowdown in growth (depending on the non-specified cause of said slowdown) is anyone's guess.