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Heterogeneous innovations and growth under imperfect technology spillovers

Jo, Karam; Kim, Seula - 2024

We study how frictions in learning others' technology, termed "imperfect technology spillovers," impact firm innovation … strategies and the aggregate economy through changes in innovation composition. We develop an endogenous growth model that … generates strategic innovation decisions, where multi-product firms improve their products via own-innovation and enter new …

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Is distance from innovation a barrier to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence?

Hunt, Jennifer; Cockburn, Iain; Bessen, James - 2024

innovation hotspots. We find that a commuting zone which is an additional 200km (125 miles) from the closest AI hotspot has 17 …

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Resources on the stage : a firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer...

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Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? : evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland

Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

In an environment of accelerating technological change and increasing digitalization, firms need to adopt new technologies faster than ever before to stay competitive. This paper examines whether updates of education curricula help to bring new technologies faster into firms' workplaces. We...

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Experience and technology adoption

Weinberg, Bruce A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Medical technology and the production of health care

Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa - 2011

health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … health spending has a significant and mild effect on health outcomes, even after controlling for medical innovation. However …

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Skilled labor supply, IT-based technical change and job instability

Behaghel, Luc; Moschion, Julie - 2012

We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 local labor markets in France, from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Although workers in more...

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Does the growth process discriminate against older workers?

Langot, François (contributor); … - 2008

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job destruction framework à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1998). We show that, under the assumption of...

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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater distance to the North

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...

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Education, governance, trade and distance : impact on technology diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America productivity gap

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017

This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin America - specifically South America and Mexico (SAM) - and East Asia, over the 32 years preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education,...

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