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Artificial intelligence against COVID-19 : an early review

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides an early, and necessarily selective review, discussing the contribution of AI to the fight...

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Breakthroughs, backlashes and Artificial General Intelligence : an extended real options approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2022

Breakthroughs and backlashes have marked progress in the development and diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These shocks make the investment in developing an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) subject to considerable uncertainty. This paper applies a real options model, extended to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012880024

Public procurement and innovation for human-centered artificial intelligence

Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2021

we contribute to the debate on HCAI by arguing that public procurement and innovation (PPaI) can be used to incentivize … with calls for mission-oriented and challenge-led innovation policies. Our paper also contributes to the emerging …

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302

Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230889

Crowdsourcing artificial intelligence in Africa: findings from a machine learning contest

Naudé, Wim; Bray, Amy; Lee, Celina - 2021

In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589259

The rise and fall of German innovation

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2021

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …

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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography

Naudé, Wim - 2020

that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …

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Extreme events, entrepreneurial start-ups, and innovation: theoretical conjectures

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020

whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306348

Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity : does aggregate demand matter?

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018

Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...

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