Though reduction is at the top of the waste management hierarchy, EU policies have historically introduced waste management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in landfills. Only very recently have EU policies started...

This article examines the relationship between the structure of intra-firm inventor networks and the technological diversity of firms. We test this relationship for a panel of 222 firms in the ICT sector for the period 1995--2003, by utilizing data on their granted patents. The results reveal...

The path dependency literature provides insights on the dynamic allocations processes in which events are non-ergodic and have multiple absorbing states. Technological change belongs to this class of processes. We contribute to this conceptual framework by analysing the distinction between path...

Though reduction is at the top of the waste management hierarchy, EU policies have historically introduced waste management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in landfills. Only very recently have EU policies started...

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative; (2) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas...

While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are seen as a convincing new opportunity to reduce human bias, automated decision-making can also have unintended and unexpected results, especially in the context of online platforms. In the case of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

We investigate how a monopoly network should price advertising campaignsfor commercial firms. We assume that the network is better able to identifythe right target audience but that this requires it to learn the firm’s audiencetype. Differences in firms’ private information such as the value...