Patenting in software, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence has grown rapidly in recent years. Such patents are … patents per inventor has declined near-monotonically, except for large increases in inventor productivity in software and …

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the informationʺ and …" lower level agents. Conversely, technologies reducing communication costs substitute agent's knowledge for directions from … workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data …