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Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020

This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...

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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011

intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … through which the knowledge acquired by emigrants abroad can flow back to the South and enhance the skills of the remaining … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it …

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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011

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Trade liberalization, democratization and technology adoption

Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - 2013

We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should accelerate technology adoption if coupled with...

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Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure: a text-similarity measure

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2021

This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al. (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in order to...

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Strategic intellectual property rights policy and North-South technology transfer

Naghavi, Alireza (contributor) - 2005

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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...

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R&D and productivity : testing sectoral peculiarities using micro data

Potters, Lesley (contributor); … - 2008

findings can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm … ; knowledge stock ; panel data ; perpetual inventory method …

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To be born is not enough : the key role of innovative startups

Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

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Embodied and disembodied technological change : the sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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