The agro-industrial complex plays a vital role in driving economic growth and sustainable development. This study investigates the direct and indirect impact of technological innovations, knowledge transfer, and value chain governance on intersectoral integration through the mediatory role of...

This work addresses the role of inter-sectoral innovation flows, which we frame as technological interdependencies, in determining sectoral employment dynamics. This purpose is achieved through the construction of an indicator capturing the amount of R&D expenditures embodied in the backward...

The activation of the startup movement is one of the fundamental preconditions for the transition from innovation to a startup ecosystem, the development of which is impossible without special innovation structures that help startups promote innovative products on the market. The purpose of this...

A few cities perform a high share of research and development (R&D) in the United States. If R&D generates local knowledge spillovers, then the social returns to R&D may vary across cities and the geographic distribution of researchers may be inefficient. Equally important, but less well...

Due to the innovative nature of green-technology products (e.g., electric vehicles and solar panels), customers are usually a priori uncertain about their purchasing benefits and typically consult user experiences via online product reviews and word-of-mouth communications. Despite the critical...

Autonomous systems have been a key segment of disruptive technologies for which data are constantly collected, processed, and shared to enable their operations. The internet of things facilitates the storage and transmission of data and data sharing is vital to power their development. However,...

This study examines the effect of firm-level adoption of industrial robots on labor cost adjustments using a unique data set of Spanish manufacturing firms. Our results suggest that robot-adopting firms exhibit greater labor cost stickiness than non-adopters. Robot adoption leads to a greater...

No court recognizes the right to adopt a child. By contrast, we embrace family formation rights and protect choices about whether to marry, procreate, and rear biological children. These rights are needed because families play a key role in society and family formation is central to a happy and...

In an unprecedented global crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, when vertical global governance plays a relatively minor role, government leaders must obtain policy information cues from other governments’ behaviors horizontally. This study builds on the policy diffusion literature to examine...

This study employs a contingent valuation survey to elicit willingness-to-pay (WTP) from Canadian recreational anglers to fish on their preferred watersheds if managers of these watersheds choose to adopt novel environmental DNA (eDNA) toolkits. The survey gathered responses from 999 Canadian...

I analyse the role of geographical, cognitive, and social proximity in the decision to adopt organic farming in Sweden, using longitudinal data, including an experimental approach, and making use of the variation over time of farms’ exposure to early adopters in the neighbourhood. I find that...

The banking and financial sectors have witnessed a significant development recently due to financial technology (FinTech), and it has become an essential part of the financial system. Many factors helped the development of this sector, including the pandemics such as Covid-19, the considerable...

Cloud Computing (CC) has emerged as one of the most discussed topics among enterprise information technology (IT) professionals. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with low budget and human resources are one of the major groups that tend to use CC for achieving the benefit of this technology. A...

This research investigated how social media can be quantified and used as an input to improve audience forecasts for television show premieres. There were two key findings. First, Twitter activity (volume of tweets and retweets) drives viewership of shows that are unscripted (i.e., reality or...

A Smoluchowski type model of coagulation in a turbulent fluid is given, first expressed by means of a stochastic model, then in a suitable scaling limit as a deterministic model with enhanced diffusion in the velocity component. A precise link between mean intensity of the turbulent velocity...

It is well known that climate and environmental factors affect the diffusion of COVID-19. This study analyzes the role of wind speed and temperature associate with air pollution in cities categorized with their population density. The paper found that, in the period after lockdown, but before...

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the motives for a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) adoption and organizational fit interact with the design and sustainability of a BSC adoption. We follow up on 10 Danish organizations that were showcased as best-practice adopters 15 years ago and identify...

We conduct a randomized controlled trial in 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the adoption of a saving commitment product new to our study population. A random set of participants are targeted by our promotional campaign. We test whether the diffusion of the product among...

Purpose: Governments in developing countries are riddled with operational inefficiencies. Many have turned to electronic service delivery to address these operational problems. With coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the push for digitalisation has only got stronger. We use the...

The use of digital health and wrist-worn wearable technologies have been increasingly utilized, especially during COVID-19 surge, to help monitor patients and vulnerable groups such as elderly people. As one of the countries with highest aging population, South Korean older adults are expected...

This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...

This paper documents a positive impact of customer innovation on supplier innovation across US sectors. This result is robust with respect to innovations of other firms within the same industry (industry spillovers) as well as within the same regions (geographical spillovers). Our exploration of...

Using data from patents, citations, inter-sectoral sales and customs, we examine the international diffusion of technology through imports of sectoral knowledge and production inputs. We construct measures of the flow of technology embodied in imports. These measures are weighted by...

The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts may not be having the desired effects on financial inclusion on the one...

This study assesses how corporate telecommunication (telecom) policies follow telecom sector regulation in mobile money innovation for financial inclusion in developing countries. Telecom policies are understood in terms of mobile subscriptions, mobile connectivity coverage and mobile...

Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the engines that drive economic growth in Nigeria, but it has been hampered by harsh macro-environments such as lack of access to finance and inadequate power supply. This study investigates the factors that influence the solar technology adoption...

The emerging role of technology raises several management challenges. Beyond the ability to develop new tools and solutions, achieving the business goals on new technologies require capable users on the other side. Understanding the factors of technology acceptance has been appreciated in recent...

This paper studies the impact of technological architecture around data storage and processing on the performance of large financial corporations after being exposed to more stringent data privacy regulations. A modular approach to cloud adoption – which reflects in the lack of data...

We study blockchain adoption in insurance-reinsurance markets. Unlike standard operational costs related to claim processing that scale linearly with the volume of claims, blockchain operating costs per firm are independent of claim volume and decrease with the adoption rate since verification...