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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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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Barbieri, Laura; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180187

The Ossified Economy: The Case of Germany, 1870-2020

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2022

We describe Germany's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century through radical innovation and … miracle, was nevertheless a period during which innovation slowed down - a somewhat surprising conclusion, but consistent with … innovation indicators, and offer four broad, interrelated explanations in a historical context: (i) the innovation system is …

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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Innovation investment and economic performance in transition economies : evidence from Slovenia

Likar, Borut; Kopač, Janez; Fatur, Peter - In: Innovation: organization & management : IOM 16 (2014) 1/3, pp. 53-66

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The radical innovation investment decision refined

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim A. - 2013

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …

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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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The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?

Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019

In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...

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