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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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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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National Innovation System in the Era of Liberalization: Implications for Science and Technology Policy for Developing Economies

Singh, Lakhwinder; Singh, Baldev - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

of the developing and newly industrializing economies shows that national systems of innovation have evolved keeping in … two essential characteristics of national innovation system that connects the users and producers of knowledge and also … rights on the other. How these arrangements have affected the national system of innovation both in the developed and …

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Unorganised Manufacturing Industry in the Era of Globalization: A Study of Punjab

Singh, Lakhwinder; Jain, Varinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The recent developments in the theory of industrial organisation have underlined the importance of small scale industry. Small industry can be equally competitive in the fast changing global economy provided it exploits economies of scale and scope while locating itself in clusters along with...

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The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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

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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/10010328895

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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