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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2022‒09‒26
three papers chosen by Laura Nicola-Gavrila Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Teodora Borota Milicevic; Fabrice Defever; Giammario Impullitti; Adam Hal Spencer |
| Abstract: | We build a two-region endogenous growth model to analyse the gains from innovation policy cooperation in an economic union. The model is calibrated to two blocks of the EU: the old and new members. R&D subsidy coordination is motivated by the distortion from subsidy competition, the strategic motive, and by intertemporal knowledge spillovers, which drive growth. The ideas production function features decreasing returns, making growth semi-endogenous, where policy affects growth temporarily. We compute gains from harmonised subsidies, chosen in each region to maximise EU welfare, with respect to competitive and observed subsidies. First, we find substantial gains to coordination, which derive exclusively from the strategic motive. Second, extending to include endogenous idea flows via FDI gives knowledge spillovers as the main driver of coordination gains. Third, extending to fully endogenous growth gives similar results. Fourth, conclusions based on steady state analysis have misleading optimal subsidies and overstate the estimated gains. |
| Keywords: | Optimal innovation policy, growth theory, international policy coordination, EU integration, FDI spillovers. |
| Date: | 2022 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:not:notcfc:2022/03&r= |
| By: | Marta Fana (European Commission - JRC); Davide Villani (European Commission - JRC) |
| Abstract: | Using firm-level data from 28 European countries, this paper explores the relationship between two types of innovation (process and digital) and different forms of control (direct and indirect) at the workplace. We find that (1) digital innovation is more common than process innovation; (2) more innovative firms record higher levels of indirect control (especially related to algorithmic management) and lower level of direct control (3) the relationship between innovation and control is not uniform across European countries. These findings nurture the debate on the future of work as the process of digitalisation may promote a shift towards indirect forms of control and contribute to reduce the degree of direct control. Moreover, these changes may also affect the bargaining process and lead to a redefinition of managerial roles, though it should be acknowledged that social and institutional factors play an important role in shaping this process. |
| Keywords: | Process innovation; Digital innovation; Algorithmic management; Control, European firms. |
| Date: | 2022–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipt:dclass:202207&r= |
| By: | Misha Teplitskiy; Soya Park; Neil Thompson; David Karger |
| Abstract: | As the academic community debates the future of in-person conferences, it is important to understand how effective they are at diffusing ideas. Most previous attempts to analyze this question have struggled to separate causation from correlation and used potentially biased measures like self-reported learning. Here, we propose a novel approach using scheduling conflicts. When multiple presentations of interest to an attendee are scheduled at the same time, the attendee is less able to see them, on average. If seeing presentations influences future research, then conflicting presentations should influence research less than unconflicting ones. Analyzing conflicts in the personalized schedules of 1960 attendees of 20 computer science conferences reveals that when an attendee is able to see a paper presentation, she is almost twice as likely to cite the paper in her future work. The effect is robust to underlying differences between attendees, papers, and paper authors, and is even larger for a stronger measure of influence -- citing the presented paper multiple times. Given the substantial learning effects of in-person presentations, it will be important to ensure that attempts to turn conferences hybrid or virtual do not imperil knowledge diffusion. |
| Date: | 2022–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2209.01175&r= |