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Artificial Intelligence and the discovery of new ideas : is an economic growth explosion imminent?
Almeida, Derick; Naudé, Wim; Sequeira, Tiago Neves - 2024
function (IPF) and propose three models relating innovation, AI and population: AI as a research-augmenting technology; AI as … researcher scale enhancing technology; and AI as a facilitator of innovation. We show, performing model simulations calibrated on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464111
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A roadmap to vocational education and training systems around the world
Eichhorst, Werner; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Schmidl, … - 2012
With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper provides a better understanding of VET around the world, dealing with three types of vocational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683238
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226119
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2012
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666513
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517433
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118533
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119232
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349947
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No Innovator's Dilemma : Re-Examining Clayton Christensen's Evidence for Disruptive Technology in the Hard Disk Drive Industry
CHIU, Wan-Ting - 2015
Christensen (1997) provided evidence for disruptions in the hard disk drive industry by examining the technological changes of disk drives. By building up the disruption model, Christensen argues that the failures of the established firms in the industry to respond to simple technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049892
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Historical Disease Prevalence, Cultural Values, and Global Innovation
Bennett, Daniel L. - 2020
The historical prevalence of infectious diseases has had an enduring effect on innovation around the world. Building on … contemporary innovation is transmitted through the development of cultural values as an evolutionary psychological immune system … [impeded] innovation. We provide supportive empirical evidence for a sample of 83 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839472