Digitization and computer science have established a whole new set of methods to analyze large collections of texts. One of these methods is particularly promising for economic historians: topic models, statistical algorithms that automatically infer themes from large collections of texts. In...

Digitization and computer science have established a whole new set of methods to analyze large collections of texts. One of these methods is particularly promising for economic historians: topic models, statistical algorithms that automatically infer themes from large collections of texts. In...

Taking robotic patents between 1977 and 2017 and building upon the topic modeling technique, we extract their latent topics, analyze how important these topics are over time, and how they are related to each other looking at how often they are recombined in the same patents. This allows us to...

Die Digitalisierung des Handwerks ist ein zentrales Thema für Handwerksorganisationen und Wirtschaftspolitik. Die Forschung zu diesem Thema hat daher in den vergangenen Jahren eine Reihe grundlegender Erkenntnisse hervorgebracht, die für die Weiterentwicklung der Digitalisierungsbemühungen...