This paper explores the extent to which the illusive phenomenon of workplace innovation has pervaded workplaces in … Conditions are supplemented by a series of case studies to look at the problems encountered in introducing workplace innovation … government programme can help disseminate workplace innovation. These six case studies, together with the statistical analysis …

This paper explores the extent to which that elusive phenomenon called 'workplace innovation' has pervaded workplaces … Conditions are supplemented by a series of case studies to look at the problems encountered in introducing workplace innovation … government programme can help disseminate workplace innovation. These six case studies, together with the statistical analysis …

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

engineering sense) of the task, against the cost of employing workers, which is increasing in training time required by the task …. Insights from artificial intelligence and robotics suggest that some tasks do not require training regardless of complexity …, while in other tasks training is required and increases in complexity. In equilibrium, firms are more likely to automate a …