Technology and Innovation
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SRINIVASAN, Suraj
Do Digital Activities Increase the Value of Nontech Firms?
Structural economic changes over time have increased the value of digital technologies. Recent advances in this area, such as analytics, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, have led nontech firms to follow the tech industry’s lead and invest in digital technologies on a large scale. How has this increased uptake of digital technology ... Read More
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SRINIVASAN, Suraj
Do Digital Activities Increase the Value of Nontech Firms?
Structural economic changes over time have increased the value of digital technologies. Recent advances in this area, such as analytics, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, have led nontech firms to follow the tech industry’s lead and invest in digital technologies on a large scale. How has this increased uptake of digital technology ... Read More
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COOPER, Ilan
EHLING, Paul
XIOUROS, Costas
Acknowledging the Role of Risk Aversion in Business Cycles
Real business cycle (RBC) models describe how firms make investment and labour decisions. They assume that technological shocks and changes in productivity are the primary drivers of macroeconomic fluctuations. However, these models generally fall short of explaining how choices made within firms—which might modify external shocks—might affect macroeconomic ... Read More
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Big data is important for business, and the HKUST Business School is taking note of developments in business analytics and reacting accordingly. Chair Professor Lancelot F. JAMES. Department of ISOM, HKUST Business School In this article I present my views on some challenges faced by the HKUST Business School in this era of big data, how it has been ... Read More
[ Data Analytics ]
Optimal vs. Rational: Bias in and Debiasing Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Ideation Contests
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AI Recruiter and Applicant Reaction: A Matter of Warmth and Competence?
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Industry Report Launched on Adoption of Virtual Banks and Insurers
The issuance of eight virtual bank licenses by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and four virtual insurer licenses by the Insurance Authority (IA) has led to an increase of Hong Kong’s overall innovation and technology adoption level. To understand the perception of the public towards virtual banks and insurers in Hong Kong, we ae delighted to ... Read More
[ Fintech ]
We develop a patent analysis approach to discover types of IT innovations and examine their technological and economic impacts. Our empirical investigation is based on 73,120 patents in the medical devices industry filed between 1996 and 2005. Rather than relying on pre-established classifications of IT innovations, we apply textual analysis to patent ... Read More
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WANG, Qiu-Hong
When a big fish in the IT sector swallows a relative minnow, it can often seem that too much has been paid and too little gained by the buyer. But, given the major players didn’t become major players by making economically dumb decisions, are there some less obvious benefits to these transactions? In their study, Professor Hui Kai Lung from HKUST Business ... Read More
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Information technology has clearly had a large impact on traditional banking services and transactions over the past 20 years. The challenges and changes are ongoing. Professor Theodore Clark will present his study on how new technologies and firms challenge traditional assumptions about the services and businesses that will dominate in this new environment ... Read More
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