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Harrigan, Kathryn Rudie; DiGuardo, Maria; Velez, Brian … - 2015

Our distance-score methodology for constructing backward-dispersion scores is an improvement over the counting methodology that the Hall, et al. (2001) measures use because (a) it captures the effects of newly-synthesized technological-class codes that are different than the technology-class...

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Innovation, R&D and productivity in the Costa Rican ICT sector : a case study

Monge González, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of...

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ICT-linked firm reorganisation and productivity gains

Falk, Martin - 2004

In the EU, most large firms use e-business applications, such as enterprise resource planning and online procurement. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of enterprise resource planning and online procurement is...

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Industrial Policy 4.0 : Promoting Transformation in the Digital Economy

Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - 2019

The rise of the fourth industrial revolution (IR) is deeply embedded in a wider context of privatization of knowledge, rising costs of innovation and uneven distribution of capacity between countries. But debates on a ‘balanced' policy framework to tackle these issues have until now floundered...

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The Decline of Computers As a General Purpose Technology : Why Deep Learning and the End of Moore’s Law are Fragmenting Computing

Thompson, Neil - 2019

It is a triumph of technology and of economics that our computer chips are so universal. Countless applications are only possible because of the staggering variety of calculations that modern chips can compute. But, this was not always the case. Computers used to be specialized, doing only...

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International Patenting Strategies of Chinese Residents: an analysis of foreign-oriented patent families

Kashcheeva, Mila; Wunsch-Vincent, Sacha; Zhou, Hao - Economics and Statistics Division, Word Intellectual … - 2014

In terms of the number of its patent applications, in 2012 China has emerged as the country with the largest IP office in the world. The performance of the Chinese IP system is thus increasingly in the spotlight. While significant economic studies have been devoted to the rise of domestic...

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Can Outsourcing of Information Technology Foster Innovations in Client Organizations? An Empirical Analysis

Susarla, Anjana; Mukhopadhyay, Tridas - 2018

There is a substantial body of literature on information technology (IT) outsourcing. However, little is known about employing IT outsourcing to generate innovation. In this paper, we articulate the ex ante as well as ex post contracting challenges that could preclude firms from realizing such...

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The Use of Knowledge in a Digital Economy

Potts, Jason - 2023

A supercluster of economically useful and powerful new digital technologies (crypto, generative AI, AR/VR, IoT, et al.) have arrived all at once in the past decade. These technologies are disrupting economic organisation and institutions (e.g. money, contracting, administration, choice). The...

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Essays in the economics of digital transformation

Goldbeck, Moritz - 2024

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The Spillover Effects of Privatization on Efficiency and Income Inequality in China

Li, Xinyu; Kim, Sunghwan; Liu, Yongshang - 2023

efficiency and regional income inequality of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs).Design/Methodology/Approach – The spatial … SOEs on improving the efficiency and income inequality of Chinese firms across regions. A panel dataset of Chinese …-listed firms from 2008 to 2018 is used. The stochastic frontier analysis method is applied in estimating corporate efficiency …

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