We analyze the effects of declining population growth on the adoption of automation technology. A standard theoretical … framework of the accumulation of traditional physical capital and of automation capital predicts that countries with a lower … population growth rate are the ones that innovate and/or adopt new automation technologies faster. We test the theoretical …

We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular … older to middle-aged workers--is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies across … development of automation technologies in countries undergoing greater demographic change. Our directed technological change model …

demographic change on innovation, captured on corporate and regional level, this means the relationship between diversity and … innovation variables is examined in a micro-economic and a macro-economic approach. The aim is to summarize and to highlight …

, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …