# Technology and Innovation
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[CHEN, Wilbur](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/chen-wilbur)
SRINIVASAN, Suraj
[Do Digital Activities Increase the Value of Nontech Firms?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/06/do-digital-activities-increase-value-nontech-firms)
[Firm Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/firm-performance)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Accounting](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/accounting)
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
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[ [BizBites](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizbites "BizBites") ]
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[CHEN, Wilbur](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/chen-wilbur)
SRINIVASAN, Suraj
[Do Digital Activities Increase the Value of Nontech Firms?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/11/do-digital-activities-increase-value-nontech-firms)
[Firm Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/firm-performance)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Accounting](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/accounting)
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](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/11/do-digital-activities-increase-value-nontech-firms)
[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[Read Full Paper](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11142-023-09753-0)
[CHEN, Zhanhui](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/chen-zhanhui)
COOPER, Ilan
EHLING, Paul
XIOUROS, Costas
[Acknowledging the Role of Risk Aversion in Business Cycles](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/05/acknowledging-role-risk-aversion-business-cycles)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Risk Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/risk-management)
[Investment Decision](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/investment-decision)
[Firm Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/firm-behavior)
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
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
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[JAMES, Lancelot](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/james-lancelot)
[Big Business](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/01/big-business)
[Big Data](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/big-data)
[Data Analytics](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/data-analytics)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
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
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[ [Data Analytics](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizthemes/data-analytics "Data Analytics") ]
[KOH, Tat Koon](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/koh-tat-koon)
[Optimal vs. Rational: Bias in and Debiasing Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Ideation Contests](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/05/optimal-vs-rational-bias-and-debiasing-feedback-use-crowdsourcing-ideation)
[Crowdsourcing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/crowdsourcing)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Interdisciplinary Seminar](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/interdisciplinary-seminar)
[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]
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[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
[AI Recruiter and Applicant Reaction: A Matter of Warmth and Competence?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/04/ai-recruiter-and-applicant-reaction-matter-warmth-and-competence)
[Artificial Intelligence](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/artificial-intelligence)
[Recruitment](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/recruitment)
[Human Resource Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/human-resource-management)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Interdisciplinary Seminar](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/interdisciplinary-seminar)
[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]
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[Industry Report Launched on Adoption of Virtual Banks and Insurers](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2020/09/industry-report-launched-adoption-virtual-banks-and-insurers)
[Fintech](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/fintech)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Financial Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/financial-innovation)
[Virtual Bank](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/virtual-bank)
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
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[ [Fintech](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizthemes/fintech "Fintech") ]
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[YIN, Zhitao](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/yin-zhitao)
[Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Intellectual Property: The Economic Impacts of Patent and IT Innovations](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2020/04/technology-innovation-entrepreneurship-and-intellectual-property-economic)
[Patent](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/patent)
[Text Mining](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/text-mining)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Interdisciplinary Seminar](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/interdisciplinary-seminar)
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
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[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]
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WANG, Qiu-Hong
[HUI, Kai Lung](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/hui-kai-lung)
[When is Bigger Better?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2018/07/when-bigger-better)
[Mergers and Acquisitions](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/mergers-and-acquisitions)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
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
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
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[Evolution of Online Financial Services and Mobile Commerce in Banking and Commercial Payment Transactions](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2016/02/evolution-online-financial-services-and-mobile-commerce-banking-and-commercial)
[Lunch Presentation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/lunch-presentation)
[Digital Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/digital-innovation)
[Financial Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/financial-innovation)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Big Data](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/big-data)
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
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[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]
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