Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 12,543
Cover Image
Digitalisierungsprozesse von KMU im Produzierenden Gewerbe
Icks, Annette; Schröder, Christian; Brink, Sigrun; … - 2017
insgesamt bereits als gut vernetzt. Während die mittleren und großen Unternehmen die mit der Digitalisierung verbundenen Chancen …Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Digitalisierungsgrad von Unternehmen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe anhand einer … repräsentativen Befragung von 1.400 Unternehmen in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bayern und Baden-Württemberg. Die Unternehmen empfinden sich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623070
Cover Image
Digitization, measurement and the unmeasurable
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
Research in the field of "Digital Economics" has widely neglected the dynamics of changes in preference and demand due to the exploding quantification of human life. This paper examines reactions to the rapidly expanding digital measurement of individual and societal factors. The reactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761654
Cover Image
Assessing the role of technology adoption in China's growth performance
Wirz, Nadja (contributor) - 2008
China has experienced a period of tremendous economic growth in recent years. In an attempt to explain this development, several existing growth-accounting studies reveal that impressively high rates of productivity growth have been at the heart of China's performance. This study investigates to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774716
Cover Image
Knowledge codification and endogenous growth
Schneider, Maik T. - 2007
The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459422
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship and economic growth : an investigation into the relationship between entrpreneurship and total factor productivity growth in the EU
Dabkowski, Andrzej P. - 2011
Endogenous growth theory assigns an important role for entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. This paper sets to formally test the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth. Entrepreneurship is represented by a number of proxy variables, whereas Total Factor Productivity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229809
Cover Image
Tracing empirical trails of Schumpeterian development
Peneder, Michael - 2004
Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growth and qualitative transformations of the economic system. At the sectoral level, such qualitative transformations become manifest as variations in the sectoral composition of production. Following the implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494555
Cover Image
Managerial capital and business R&D as enablers of productivity convergence
Andrews, Dan; Westmore, Ben - 2014
This paper explores the role of managerial capital and business research and development (R&D) in fostering multifactor productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition to trade openness, an economy’s speed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465017
Cover Image
Automation and the fall and rise of the servant economy
Krenz, Astrid; Strulik, Holger - 2022
We develop a macroeconomic theory of the division of household tasks between servants and own work and how it is affected by automation in households and firms. We calibrate the model for the U.S. and apply it to explain the historical development of household time use and the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820860
Cover Image
An integrated assessment model with endogenous growth
Hübler, Michael; Baumstark, Lavinia; Leimbach, Marian; … - 2012
We introduce endogenous directed technical change into numerical integrated climate and development policy assessment. We distinguish expenditures on innovation (R&D) and imitation (international technology spillovers) and consider the role of capital investment in creating and implementing new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656602
Cover Image
The middle-income trap from a Schumpeterian perspective
Aghion, Philippe; Bircan, Cagatay - 2017
We provide an outline for viewing the middle-income trap through the lens of the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, which places the notion of creative destruction at the center of economic growth. Economic growth and development come from the interplay between changes in economic structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723084