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The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?

Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019

In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...

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The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Naudé, Wim - 2019

After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...

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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which …

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Innovation in the European Value Chain: The Case of the Romanian Automotive Industry

Negrea, Alina Petronela; Cojanu, Valentin - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 1, pp. 126-146

’ approach to and perception on innovation, (2) factors affecting innovation, and (3) networking and knowledge diffusion in the … innovation plays at the current stage of the industry and the key role entrepreneurs have in stimulating innovation in the … presence of an innovation friendly business environment, entrepreneurs’ personality, as well as the external competitive …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

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Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies: A survey and some methodological issues

Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019

The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...

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Enabling a sustainable Fourth Industrial Revolution: How G20 countries can create the conditions for emerging technologies to benefit people and the planet

Herweijer, Celine; Combes, Benjamin; Johnson, Leo; … - 2018

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) offers huge potential to transform and realign our economies and societies. There is an increasing realization that the 4IR could also exacerbate problems for people and the planet. The G20 should champion a holistic approach to the 4IR that helps to...

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Mr. Keynes and the neo-Schumpeterians: Contributions to the analysis of the determinants of innovation from a post-Keynesian perspective

Romero, João P. - In: EconomiA 15 (2014) 2, pp. 189-205

state of long-term expectations that drive firms’ decisions to search for innovation and to investment in R&D. The paper … takes the post-Keynesian theory as reference, associating it with the neo-Schumpeterian analysis of innovation dynamics … type of innovation, while incremental innovations are more dependent on tacit knowledge about the current market conditions …

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Overview of Requirements Engineering Process for Software Product Lines

Šćepanović, Snežana; Popović, Blažo - 2015

Software Product Lines is an important strategy to minimize costs and time-to market, and maximize quality and productivity of the software development. It involves the management of variabilities and commonalities among several applications, which increases its complexity compared to...

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