Innovative users can not only generate ideas for new products, but also self-select whether to share their ideas with peers or producers. Different innovative users have different degree of lead userness, and their ideas are usually rooted in tacit need-related knowledge. Because it has been...

Purpose: In heterogeneously segmented markets, collaborating with product users in product innovation is important for business success. End user innovators and embedded user innovators differ in terms of their prior embeddedness in the target industry. The purpose of this study is twofold....

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium integrated assessment model that incorporates costs due to new technology adoption in renewable energy as well as externalities associated with carbon emissions and renewable technology spillovers. We use world economy data to calibrate our model and...

The prediction of the results of introducing a new product into the market, is one of the vital issues facing the organization's executives before investing in marketing activities. The impact of various factors on the market, as well as the specific characteristics of the market, depending on...

The post highlights three main issues that may result from the rapid and widespread automation of jobs: 1) declining tax revenues; 2) inequitable distribution of gains and losses from automation; and 3) social costs of job displacement, such as social support and retraining programmes for...

This study focuses on the role of production networks as a mechanism of inflation diffusion across industries by using a dataset of South Korean manufacturing industries over 56 years, from 1965 to 2021. This paper aims to answer the following questions: (1) How does producer price inflation...

The evolution of manufacturing and design concepts used in Industry 4.0 involves the connectivity and digitalization of production means. This paper aims to identify factors and characteristics of collaborative design technologies with cloud tools and relate them to innovation adoption factors...

Digital transformation is very important and integral part of technology modernisation drive in all financial institutions. This is all the more inevitable in microfinance as it covers a large number of resource impoverished clients whose access to formal banking is limited. The study aims to...

Digitalisation can be described as a sequence of technology and supply shocks which affect the economy through employment and labour markets, productivity and output, and competition and market structure. This paper focuses on how digitalisation - the process of diffusion of digital technologies...

The accumulation of knowledge and its application to a variety of human needs is a discontinuous process that involves innovation and change. While much has been written on major discontinuities associated, for instance, with the rise of new technologies during industrial revolutions, other...