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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...
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Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation: Evidence from firm-level data
Rammer, Christian; Fernández, Gastón P.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 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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Regional Versus Individual Aspects of the Digital Divide in Germany
Schleife, Katrin - 2008
This paper analyzes the regional dimension of the German digital divide. It studies the determinants of home Internet … show that population density itself cannot explain regional differences in Internet use rates. The results rather indicate …
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Political ignorance and the internet
Bertschek, Irene; Müller, David F. - 2021
We examine the link between Internet usage and political ignorance. We construct a novel Index as a direct measure of … and being representative for the German electorate. The empirical results show that in the earlier years of Internet … diffusion there is a negative link between using the Internet and political ignorance. This link changes sign in later years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876069
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Evidence on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence: The role of skills shortage
Carioli, Paolo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P. - 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to be the next general-purpose technology, with the potential of performing tasks commonly requiring human capabilities. While it is commonly feared that AI replaces labor and disrupts jobs, we instead investigate the potential of AI for overcoming...
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Regulatory compliance with limited enforceability: Evidence from privacy policies
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Krämer, Julia; Gambato, Jacopo - 2024
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018 introduced stringent transparency rules compelling firms to disclose, in accessible language, details of their data collection, processing, and use. The specifics of the disclosure requirement are objective, and its compliance is easily...
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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?
Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - 2003
Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing number of national firm level studies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297274
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Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe: Was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?
2003
This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned product launches are either genuine market novelties or products that are new from the...
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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An Analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - 2004
This paper analyzes computer use by older male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on their employment status, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1997 and 2001. In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297386
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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis
Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004
certification of environmental management systems has a significantly positive effect on environmental product innovations. Waste …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297394