Top Research Papers on Technology

The market competitiveness and sustainable operation of an enterprise are closely correlated with the support of high-tech core technologies in the enterprise. This study first discusses the basic knowledge of core competitiveness, introduces the components and evaluation methods of core competitiveness, and builds an evaluation index system for core competitiveness of high-tech enterprises. Then, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is fully discussed, during which the steps, advantages, and disadvantages of the AHP evaluation method are introduced. Finally, the Fujian Province of China is ta...

Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them. We describe the growing influence of advanced technologies for businesses outside of traditional tech fields, the strains and backlash that tech clusters are experiencing, and emerging research questions for theory and empirical work.

As significant strategic players in China's economy, high-tech industries need to evaluate and analyze the technological innovation activities from a system point of view to understand and improve their technological innovation efficiency and, thereby, promote their development. Different high-tech industries have different characteristics and thus benefit from different industrial development policies. However, few studies to date have discussed this issue from a systematic perspective. In this study, technological innovation activities are divided into a research and development (R&D) stage ...

Analysis of the relationship between green-revealed technological advantages and local AI for EU-28 (NUTS-3) regions over the period 1982-2017 shows that AI knowledge favours the green-tech specialization of regions, provided that they were already green-Tech specialized in the past.

Fintech and big tech platforms have expanded their lending around the world. We estimate that the flow of these new forms of credit reached USD 223 billion and USD 572 billion in 2019, respectively. China, the United States and the United Kingdom are the largest markets for fintech credit. Big tech credit is growing fast in China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and some countries in Africa and Latin America. Cross-country panel regressions show that such lending is more developed in countries with higher GDP per capita (at a declining rate), where banking sector mark-ups are higher and where ban...

By analysing how Google, Amazon and Microsoft organize their innovation activities, it is shown that they continuously monopolize knowledge while outsourcing innovation steps to other firms and research institutions.

Following a set of digital construction innovations through their known past and their uncertain present, a review of their increasingly optimistic future is reviewed, all through the lens of their dependence on digital information.

The high-tech sector is concentrated in a small number of cities. The ten largest clusters in computer science, semiconductors, and biology account for 69 percent, 77 percent, and 59 percent of all US inventors, respectively. Using longitudinal data on 109,846 inventors, I find that geographical agglomeration results in significant productivity gains. When an inventor moves to a city with a large cluster of inventors in the same field, she experiences a sizable increase in the number and quality of patents produced. The presence of significant productivity externalities implies that the agglom...

Fintech and big tech companies are making rapid inroads into credit markets. We hand construct a global database of fintech and big tech lending volumes for 79 countries over 2013–2018. Using a panel regression analysis, we find these new forms of digital lending are larger in countries with higher GDP per capita (albeit at a declining rate), where banking sector mark-ups are higher, and where banking regulation is less stringent. We also find that these alternative forms of credit are more developed where the ease of doing business is greater, investor protection disclosure and the efficiency...

A global effort is ongoing in the scientific community and in the maker movement, which focuses on creating devices and tinkering with them, to reverse-engineer commercial medical equipment and get it to healthcare workers.

"From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of Silicon Valley's intellectual origins."

An in-depth qualitative analysis of 115 syllabi from university technology ethics courses is presented, contributing a snapshot of the content and goals of tech ethics classes, and recommendations for how these might be integrated across a computing curriculum.

Tourism scholars should seize the opportunity to develop robotic applications that enhance tourist experiences, the protection of natural and cultural resources, citizen participation in tourism development decision making, and the emergence of new ‘high-touch’ employment opportunities for travel, tourism and hospitality workers.

The findings show that Big Tech firms turn “users” and “user engagement” into assets through the performative measurement, governance, and valuation of user metrics (e.g., user numbers, user engagement), rather than extending ownership and control rights over personal data per se.

This study provides quantitative evidence on the positive effect of spending on socially responsible causes on the long-term growth of U.S technology companies. Maximizing shareholder wealth remains the overarching principle driving organizational strategies, but this has always conflicted with other stakeholders' interests. Because of these conflicting priorities, entrenching the principles of social responsibility has become imperative. We leverage content analysis, fixed-effects and pooled regression models to examine the effect of engaging in CSR on tech companies' corporate financial perf...

It is argued that there is a need for a more reflective ‘normalisation’ of work practices and the role technology plays and its underlying components of cohesion, cognitive participation, collective action and reflexive monitoring are examined.

The results reveal that compared with the command-controlled environmental regulation, the incentive effect of market-incentive environmental regulation and voluntary environmental regulation on enterprise innovation is more significant, where the innovation input fully plays its role as a mediating effect.

Building on dynamic capabilities, a total of nine capabilities have been identified that assist high-tech SMEs to become agile in their cross-border activities and proposed conceptual frameworks for agility in international high- tech SMEs.

The recent debate about the digitalization of museums and new technologies has become increasingly important among tourism scholars. Digital innovation and virtual environments, such as social media platforms, might significantly foster the competitive advantage of museums and their ability to attract new visitors. Particularly in times of crisis, prospective tourists appreciate the addition of a ‘digital flavor’ to exhibitions and art galleries. Improved experiences, increased loyalty, and overall higher satisfaction result from the introduction of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) i...

The study assesses the effect of the high-tech industry and renewable energy on consumption-based carbon emissions (CCO2) in the MINT countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey). The study also incorporates other drivers of CCO2 emissions, such as economic growth and foreign direct investment. It utilises a panel dataset spanning between 1990 and 2018 and a series of second-generation techniques such as CIPS and CADF unit root, Westerlund cointegration, the fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS), dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), fixed effect ordinary least square (FE-OLS) and ...