Marketing and Economic Growth
By Leo Sveikauskas
Firms are increasingly investing in marketing activities; marketing assets are becoming an important component of firm capital. But how much do these investments contribute to economic growth?
By Leo Sveikauskas
Firms are increasingly investing in marketing activities; marketing assets are becoming an important component of firm capital. But how much do these investments contribute to economic growth?
By Sabrina Genz and Claus Schnabel
Although numerous studies have investigated the aggregate employment effects of automation and digitalization, relatively little is known about the effects at the level of individual workers and along the gender dimension.
By Chi Heem Wong, Dexin Li, Nina Wang, Jonathan Gruber, Andrew W. Lo & Rena M. Conti
Gene therapy is a new class of medical treatment that alters part of a patient’s genome through the replacement, deletion, or insertion of genetic material.
By Huasheng Gao, Po-Hsuan Hsu, and Jin Zhang
It is well-known that firms commonly use “pay secrecy rules and practices” — contracts and internal rules prohibiting or strongly discouraging employees from disclosing their wages to coworkers.
By Filippo Mezzanotti and Timothy Simcoe
Economists generally view innovation as the most significant driver of long-run productivity growth. In their new working paper, Filippo Mezzanotti and Tim Simcoe study how firms capture the benefits of innovation using survey data collected by the US Census between 2008 and 2015.
James Bessen, TPRI Executive Director’s, new article “How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation” in Communications of the ACM, Volume 66, Issue 10, October 2023 pp 34–36.
By Diego Dabed, Sabrina Genz and Emilie Rademakers
Technology changes the demand for different skills. Automation, for example, eliminates some routine tasks, reducing the demand for related skills.
By Maarten Goos
During the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in late September 2021 in Pittsburgh, both the US and European Commission expressed strong interest in working on a joint study to assess the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence on our workforces.
By Po-Hsuan Hsu, Yiqing Lü, Hong Wu, and Yuhai Xuan
Under the escalating global technology competition, corporate innovation activities play a critical role in determining firms’ future growth and survival.
By Michael Meurer
Patents are supposed to cover new and innovative inventions, so why are there patents on old or obvious creations such as a stick, a method of swinging on a swing, and bread with the crust cut off?