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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …
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In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …
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We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
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Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large Ramp;D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on...
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In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides an early, and necessarily selective review, discussing the contribution of AI to the fight...
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How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...
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Breakthroughs and backlashes have marked progress in the development and diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These shocks make the investment in developing an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) subject to considerable uncertainty. This paper applies a real options model, extended to...
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