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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...
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better understand the complicity of business there is a need for a shift from diagnostic attention on how businesses are …
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during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
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break in the disruptiveness of entrepreneurship and business papers occurred around 1999. These results should not be taken …
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This study investigates the relationship between social vulnerability, illegal activities, and location-based business …, gathered from areas with high levels of criminal activity, reflecting the experiences of business owners and managers in these … associated with increased location-based business disruptions. These disruptions manifest in assaults on employees and customers …
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The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was … with reduced business risks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for both small and medium enterprises. The study indicates that …
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Using the entire population of USPTO patent applications published between 2002 and 2019, and leveraging on both patent classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current knowledge base centred on robotics and AI technologies. These technologies are investigated both as a...
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In "The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment," Acemoglu and Restrepo (2018b) combine the task-based model of the labor market with an endogenous growth model to model the economic consequences of artificial intelligence (AI). This...
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In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated digital platform. We ran a Machine Learning (ML) contest on the continent's largest data science contest platform, Zindi. Contestants were surveyed on their motivations to take...
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We investigate how workers adjust to firms' investments into new digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, augmented reality, or 3D printing. For this, we collected novel data that links survey information on firms' technology adoption to administrative social security data. We...
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