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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207791
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282387
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Innovation in ASEAN : Change and Development
Ratten, Vanessa (ed.) - 2022
1. Innovation in ASEAN countries -- 2. The Transformation of Embedded Means into Resources During Community …-Based Venture Creation -- 3. Entrepreneurial Innovation Strategy in the Midst of Pandemic: A Case of Bersih Solution -- 4. Evolution … of Entrepreneurship Development among Different Generations in Adopting Technology in Malaysia: Towards a Reconciliation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013176815
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Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1 : Creating the Theft Economy, 1945–1957
Scranton, Philip - 2022
reported by actors and direct observers, ranging from innovation and improvisation to obstruction, failure, and fraud. Further …, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, USA. His publications include fourteen books and seventy scholarly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814790
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293106
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584669
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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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984565
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005842
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The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Naudé, Wim - 2019
After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005919
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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005993