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Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Innovation : Evidence From Firm-Level Data
Rammer, Christian; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P. - 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to offer new features of products and services, to improve production, marketing and administration processes, and to introduce new business models. This paper analyses the extent to...
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Artificial Intelligence and Firm-Level Productivity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of production that may increase productivity. So...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297967
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Mobile and More Productive? Firm-Level Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Mobile Internet Use
Bertschek, Irene - 2016
Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether … employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers … to the year 2014, when high-speed mobile internet was still at a relatively early stage of diffusion within firms. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994340
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The Economic Impacts of Telecommunications Networks and Broadband Internet : A Survey
Bertschek, Irene - 2016
and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984636
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Mobile Network Interconnection and Investments
Veith, Tobias - 2009
its components) and the service markets (telephony, mobile internet, SMS). In contrast to most other network-based markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200074
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Does Social Software Support Service Innovation?
Meyer, Jenny - 2013
Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in … firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202266
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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu, Jordi; Mairesse, Jacques; … - 2009
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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How Do Managers Form Their Expectations About Working From Home? Survey Experiments on the Perception of Productivity
Erdsiek, Daniel; Rost, Vincent - 2023
The recent shift towards working from home (WFH) has far-reaching implications for social and economic outcomes. While firms are gatekeepers for the ongoing diffusion of flexible work arrangements, there is little evidence on how firms decide to offer WFH. We leverage two survey experiments...
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The Impact of Innovation on Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises with Different Growth Rates
Zimmermann, Volker - 2014
This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708342
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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene - 2009
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718005