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Climate change and labour-saving technologies: The twin transition via patent texts

Rughi, Tommaso; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2023

This paper provides a direct understanding of the twin transition from the innovative activity domain. It starts with a technological mapping of the technological innovations characterised by both climate change mitigation/adaptation (green) and labour-saving attributes. To accomplish the task,...

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Weak sectors and weak ties? Labour dependence and asymmetric positioning in GVCs

Cresti, Lorenzo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2023

of learning capabilities, represented by knowledge embodied along the division of labour within global production … networks. In order to capture the division of labour, and the ensuing division of embodied knowledge, we move from monetary …

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Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020

This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...

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Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure: A text-similarity measure

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2021

This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and labour-saving robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al., (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in...

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Firm responses to the pandemic crisis: Sticky capabilites and widespread restructuring

Costa, Stefano; De Santis, Stefano; Dosi, Giovanni; … - 2021

organizational capabilities, practices, attitudes toward innovation, business models and strategies during the period 2016-2018, in …

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Back to the past: The historical roots of labour-saving automation

Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2020

This paper, relying on a still relatively unexplored long-term dataset on U.S.~patenting activity, provides empirical evidence on the history of labour-saving innovations back to early 19th century. The identification of mechanisation/automation heuristics, retrieved via textual content analysis...

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The present, past, and future of labor-saving technologies

Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2020

documents the presence of labor-saving heuristics in the latest wave of technological innovation, detecting the human functions …

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From organizational capabilities to corporate performances: At the roots of productivity slowdown

Costa, Stefano; De Santis, Stefano; Dosi, Giovanni; … - 2021

This paper is one of the first attempts at empirically identifying organisational capabilities - in this work concerning Italian firms. Together, it proposes new evidence on the link between capabilities and economic performances. In order to do so, we employ the Indagine Multiscopo del...

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Whither the evolution of the contemporary social fabric? New technologies and old socio-economic trends

Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2019

the processes of innovation and diffusion of what we could call "intelligent automation" are likely to change, or more … the ensuing impact on jobs, division of labour, distribution of knowledge, power, and control. Finally, we address some …

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Anatomy of the Italian occupational structure: Concentrated power and distributed knowledge

Cetrulo, Armanda; Guarascio, Dario; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2019

knowledge embedded in the work itself, called ICP (Indagine Campionaria sulle Professioni), the latter being comparable to the U … locus of knowledge generation. It is also weak in terms of collaborative and worker involvement practices, and possibility …, and knowledge as the most relevant attributes characterizing the division of labour. …

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