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Succeeding in innovation : key insights on the role of R&D and technological acquisition drawn from company data

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new … homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by introducing different types of innovation investments (R&D and technology … acquisition) for different sets of companies. Using the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) dataset comprising more than 3000 …

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The race for an artificial general intelligence : implications for public policy

Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018

research is needed to elaborate the design of systems of public procurement of AI innovation and for appropriately adjusting … the legal frameworks underpinning high-tech innovation, in particular dealing with patents created by AI. …

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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments

Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023

Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...

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Automation and related technologies: a mapping of the new knowledge base

Santarelli, Enrico; Staccioli, Jacopo; Vivarelli, Marco - 2022

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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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...

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The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe

Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022

We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...

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IC technology and learning : an impact evaluation of cl ssi2.0

Checchi, Daniele; Rettore, Enrico; Girardi, Silvia - 2015

In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...

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Untangling trade and technology : evidence from local labor markets

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...

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Skilled labor supply, IT-based technical change and job instability

Behaghel, Luc; Moschion, Julie - 2012

We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 local labor markets in France, from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Although workers in more...

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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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