Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being used increasingly to automate tasks and decision-making processes, and to predict user behavior. Although AI has been implemented and studied in depth in the computer science, economics and management fields research on AI is relatively new. As...

As hundreds of zettabytes of data are being generated by the bio-cyber-physical technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), it has become untenable to argue that the law needs to introduce incentives to produce more data. Instead, as private corporations amass a wealth of data...

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...

Objective: Nowadays, Organizations have adopted process-driven approaches in order to improve their operations. Process identification and refining them in organizations is essential to save time and reduce costs. Process management, enterprise risk management and compliance checking with the...

We address how analysts affect intangible investment using a novel measure – corporate political investments (CPI) – that can uniquely identify inefficient intangible investment. We find a negative relationship between analyst coverage and CPI, with a 28.3% increase in CPI over a three-year...

Countries are unlikely to solve a particular problem unless they have some level of research invested in the effort. The approach in this paper is to use malaria research as a proxy for effective exploitation of local scientific knowledge. We study the malaria-related research output in two...

In this paper, we describe the emergence and evolution of pharmaceutical research at the German company E. Merck during the late 19th and early 20th century. Revolutionary changes in the scientific knowledge base, especially the rise of bacteriological research, and the market entry of dyestuff...

A preventive HIV vaccine offers the best hope for ending the AIDS pandemic. Scientific evidence suggests that an HIV vaccine is possible, and funding for HIV vaccine research and development (R&D) has increased substantially in recent years. The speed of progress toward an HIV vaccine will...

In this Policy Paper, we analyze the variation in broadband adoption rates among the respective United States. Significantly, we find that 91% of the variation is explained by demographic and economic conditions, such as household income, education and, most significantly, income inequality. Our...