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Artificial intelligence against COVID-19 : an early review

Naudé, Wim - 2020

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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Public procurement and innovation for human-centered artificial intelligence

Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2021

we contribute to the debate on HCAI by arguing that public procurement and innovation (PPaI) can be used to incentivize … with calls for mission-oriented and challenge-led innovation policies. Our paper also contributes to the emerging …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405740

Breakthroughs, backlashes and Artificial General Intelligence : an extended real options approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2022

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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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?

Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019

In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...

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Technological innovation and inclusive growth in Germany

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2017

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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The race for an artificial general intelligence : implications for public policy

Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018

research is needed to elaborate the design of systems of public procurement of AI innovation and for appropriately adjusting … the legal frameworks underpinning high-tech innovation, in particular dealing with patents created by AI. …

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Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity : does aggregate demand matter?

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018

Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

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Is the scholarly field of entrepreneurship at its end?

Naudé, Wim - 2024

This paper presents tentative evidence from 68,792 papers published between 1961 and 2020 that progress in the scholarly field of entrepreneurship is declining. It is found that the annual number of papers published in entrepreneurship has increased exponentially since the Second World War,...

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