Purpose Industry 4.0 technologies are promising to increase manufacturing companies' performance through the new knowledge that such digital allow create and manage within firm boundaries customer interactions. Despite great attention on adoption paths, little is known about relationships with previous waves of technologies, namely, information communication (ICTs), how different groups both ty...

We study learning algorithms that are restricted to using a small amount of information from their input sample. We introduce a category of learning algorithms we term d-bit information learners, which are algorithms whose output conveys at most d bits of information of their input. A central theme in this work is that such algorithms generalize. We focus on the learning capacity of these algor...

This paper is to elaborate and develop an alternative framework for the study of technological innovation systems. Compared with conventional literature, this analytical framework is designed for entrepreneurs, i.e. actors, at the micro level rather than policy makers at the meso or macro level. The socalled entrepreneurial innovation system is conceptually refined by synthesizing knowledge reg...

Financial inclusion (FI) provides significant possibilities for poverty alleviation. Information communication technology (ICT) is an essential component of any FI strategy aiming to enable access a wide range financial products and services. This study explores entrepreneurs’ assessments the role ICT their its effect in Africa. Using data 1436 entrepreneurs, from World Bank Enterprise Survey d...

We compare results from a pilot study on entrepreneurship in China and Russia. Compared to non-entrepreneurs, Russian and Chinese entrepreneurs have more entrepreneurs in their family and among childhood friends, value work more relative to leisure and have higher wealth ambitions. Russian entrepreneurs have a better educational background and their parents were more likely to have been members...

We construct an economy where, in the presence of binding regulatory capital requirements, a two way interaction between banks’ capitalisation and borrowers’ choice of projects propagates negative shocks to technology or regulation. The key elements behind this ...nancial accelerator are a limited substitutability in entrepreneurs’ sources of external ...nance, a moral hazard in entrepreneurs’ ...

The study of spacetime, and its role in understanding functional systems has received little attention in information science. Recent work, on the origin of universal scaling in cities and biological systems, provides an intriguing insight into the functional use of space, and its measurable effects. Cities are large information systems, with many similarities to other technological infrastruct...

Executive Summary The glass ceiling phenomenon that impedes the advancement of talented women professionals into senior executive roles inside large corporations is widely recognized in society, studied in the management literature, taught in business schools, and tangibly felt by many women executives. Outside the corporate setting, we show that a second glass ceiling exists for women entrepre...