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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480697
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Two Paths to Abstract Art : Kandinsky and Malevich
Galenson, David W. - 2006
Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were both great Russian painters who became pioneers of abstract art during the second decade of the twentieth century. Yet the forms of their art differed radically, as did their artistic methods and goals. Kandinsky, an experimental artist, approached...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466262
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New Ideas in Invention
Packalen, Mikko - 2015
A key decision in research is whether to try out new ideas or build on more established ideas. In this paper, we evaluate which type of work is more likely to spur further invention. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457744
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … consistent with this pattern. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per … patent) and creativity (fraction of superstar innovators, the likelihood of a very high number of citations, and generality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458770
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Information Technology and the Japanese Economy
Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2005
In this paper we compare sources of economic growth in Japan and the United States from 1975 through 2003, focusing on the role of information technology (IT). We have adjusted Japanese data to conform to U.S. definitions in order to provide a rigorous comparison between the two economies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466870
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The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2018
three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to "new hubs" with … of US multinational R&D has reinforced the technological leadership of US-based firms in the information technology …
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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property
Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226110
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Patent Text and Long-Run Innovation Dynamics : The Critical Role of Model Selection
Ganguli, Ina - 2024
As distorted maps may mislead, Natural Language Processing (NLP) models may misrepresent. How do we know which NLP model to trust? We provide comprehensive guidance for selecting and applying NLP representations of patent text. We develop novel validation tasks to evaluate several leading NLP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072876
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Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity
Chun, Hyunbae - 2007
Traditional U.S. industries with higher firm-specific stock return and fundamentals performance heterogeneity use information technology (IT) more intensively and post faster productivity growth in the late 20th century. We argue that elevated firm performance heterogeneity mechanically reflects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465644
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456349