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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain … service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also … highlight the important role of knowledge in the production system and in doing so make an important contribution to a key …
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pt. 1. Core linkages in the genesis of innovation: the knowledge dimension -- pt. 2. Military-based innovation networks …The genesis and diffusion of innovation depends upon the density of the cognitive and market relationships among … economic and social origins of innovation …
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1. The objective : to stimulate a knowledge-based debate about innovation policy -- 2. Innovation -- 3. The innovation … learning economy -- 8. The learning organization -- 9. Knowledge intensity and knowledge flows in the Danish innovation system …Written by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this …
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, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …
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potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …
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This review considers the evolution of economic thinking on the relationship between digital technology and inequality across four decades, encompassing four related but intellectually distinct paradigms, which I refer to as the education race, the task polarization model, the...
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We analyze how output and wages behave under different scenarios for technological progress that may culminate in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), defined as the ability of AI systems to perform all tasks that humans can perform. We assume that human work can be decomposed into atomistic...
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This paper evaluates claims about large macroeconomic implications of new advances in AI. It starts from a task-based model of AI's effects, working through automation and task complementarities. So long as AI's microeconomic effects are driven by cost savings/productivity improvements at the...
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We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...
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