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Distance to the Pre-industrial Technological Frontier and Economic Development

Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the effects of distance to the pre-industrial technological frontiers on comparative economic development in the course of human history. It establishes theoretically and empirically that distance to the frontier had a persistent non-monotonic effect on a country's...

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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and … far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable … of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross …

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Data Localisation : India's Double Edged Sword?

Gupta, Shagufta - 2020

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Digitalisation in Austria : State of Play and Reform Needs

Hölzl, Werner - 2019

The report provides an overview and an analysis of the state of digitalization in Austria's economy. The findings are mixed. Austria performs well in the manufacturing industries but is lagging in the service sector compared to the innovation leader countries of the “European Innovation...

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The United States Response to Emerging Technological Powers

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2019

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Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change : The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction

Dosi, Giovanni - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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Greasing the Wheels of Change : Bribery, Institutions, and New Product Introductions in Emerging Markets

Krammer, Sorin - 2017

Despite the consensus on the negative country-level implications of corruption, its consequences for firms are less understood. This study examines the effect of bribery on the innovative performance of firms in emerging markets as reflected by new product introductions. I argue that bribery may...

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Global Start-Up Communities

Fenwick, Mark - 2016

Although economic globalization has transformed contemporary conceptions of space, location still matters enormously for both individual entrepreneurs seeking to develop a sustainable business and policy makers looking to foster entrepreneurship within a particular city or region. In making the...

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Fukushima's Shadow

Davies, Lincoln L. - 2016

The March 11, 2011 tragedy at the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan immediately etched its place in history as arguably the most noteworthy of the three nuclear energy disasters to date. This Article surveys the response to Fukushima both in Japan and worldwide. It observes that rather...

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The First Patent Litigation Explosion

Beauchamp, Christopher - 2016

-scale patent assertion provides a new explanation for patent law's crucial shift from common law to equity decision making in the …

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