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Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: emerging trajectories and challenges
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posted on 2023-06-10, 00:00 authored by Tommaso CiarliTommaso Ciarli, Martin Kenney, Silvia Massini, Lucia PiscitelloIn order to better understand the complex and dialectical relationships between digital technologies, innovation, and skills, it is necessary to improve our understanding of the coevolution between the trajectories of connected digital technologies, firm innovation routines, and skills formation. This is critical as organizations recombine and adapt digital technologies; they require new skills to innovate, learn, and adapt to evolving digital technologies, while digital technologies change the codification of knowledge for productive and innovative activities. The coevolution between digital technologies, innovation, and skills also requires, and is driven by, a reorganization of productive and innovation processes, both within and between firms. We observe this in all economic sectors, from agriculture to services. Based on evidence on past technologies and the innovation literature, we suggest that we might require a new set of stylized facts to better map the main future trajectories of digital technologies, their adoption, use, and recombination in organizations, to improve our understanding of their impact on productivity, employment and inequality.
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Pathways to Inclusive Labour Markets (PILLARS); G3163; EUROPEAN UNION
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Research PolicyISSN
0048-7333Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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7Volume
50Article number
a104289Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2021-06-04First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-12-03First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-06-03Usage metrics
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