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What if Your Boss Was an Algorithm? The Rise of Artificial Intelligence at Work

Adams-Prassl, Jeremias - 2020

Rapid advancements in automation will have a profound impact on labour markets. This paper focuses on a comparatively overlooked aspect of debates surrounding automation and the future of work: the rise of algorithmic management, enabled by hitherto infeasible forms of data collection and...

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Education and Social Cohesion for Economic Growth

Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2017

Relevant theoretical underpinnings suggest that higher education, continuous professional development and training provide numerous opportunities for societal advancement. This contribution posits that interventions in the realms of education can play a significant role in shaping key...

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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An Examination of Technology Strategies for the Integration of Bioinformatics in Pharmaceutical R&D Processes

Hopkins, Michael M. - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 1999

, showing how barriers to innovation and limiting steps within the R&D process are changing as a result of bioinformatics. …

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Mapping the two faces of R&D : productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - 2001

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

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The State of Science and Innovation in Russia in 2014

Dezhina, Irina - 2015

science development were being structured and their activities were adapting to the new system of management. Innovation went … into a decline, the rate of which had increased by the end of the year. No new instruments of innovation policy were … introduced and the state of innovation was being significantly affected by the general conditions of economic activity, the …

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Defensive Innovations

Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...

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Innovation and Spillovers in Regions : Evidence from European Patent Data

Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - 2012

The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of research externalities across space, in generating innovation. We do … would increase the innovation of the region itself by 80-90%. Given the small size and the limited range of diffusion, we …

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Innovation, Demand and Knowledge Spillovers : Theory and Evidence from European Regions

Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - 1999

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, the productivity of its R&D and the existence of knowledge spillovers across regional boundaries. Here we develop a … model which, emphasizing "the demand pull" as a key exogenous determinant of long-run innovation across regions, allows us …

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