MIOIR & WEI Joint Seminar - Adoption of Digital Technologies and Skills in Greater Manchester: Motivations, Barriers and Impact
| Dates: | 15 December 2022 |
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| Times: | 12:30 - 13:30 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | Alliance Manchester Business School |
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| How much: | Free |
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Join Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Work and Equalities Institute for their seminar with Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo & Silvia Massini on Adoption of Digital Technologies and Skills in Greater Manchester: Motivations, Barriers and Impact.
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Abstract:
Digital technologies are increasingly adopted by businesses in both manufacturing and service industries, and their adoption affects and is affected by (digital) skills availability. This report presents an overview of the main results of the bespoke survey on the Adoption of Digital Technologies and Skills (ADiTS) in Greater Manchester. The survey represents a pioneering effort to identify the patterns of technology diffusion and pervasiveness of six advanced digital technologies at the firm level, namely, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cloud Computing, 3D-printing, Internet of Things (IoT) and Robotics. Not only does it shed light on the strategies to adopt digital technologies, but it also offers insights into the motivations, primary barriers experienced by enterprises, and the impact on employment and productivity these technologies might have. This report represents the first look at key statistics on technology adoption across firms and sectors in Greater Manchester. It identifies which technologies are at the early stages of diffusion as well as potential complementarities concluding some insights to advance the research frontier of technology diffusion in the digital era.
S?peaker Bio's:
Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo is Presidential Fellow at the Alliance Manchester Business School and Deputy Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Previously she worked as Research Fellow at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in the area of Human Capital and Employment. She has a degree in Statistics and holds a PhD from the Technical University of Valencia and INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) in Spain with a particular focus on the economics of higher education. Her main research interests are in the involvement of universities in economic development, university-society collaborations, and the relationship between digital technologies, skills, employment and human capital. Her research has been published in several international journals.
Silvia Massini is Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation at the Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. Her current research interests are on the emergence, adoption and diffusion of innovation; impact of digital technologies on innovation processes and strategies as well as the relationship of digital technologies with skills needs and changes; industry-university collaborations for teaching programmes. She has researched and published on global sourcing of innovation, innovators and imitators dynamics, absorptive capacity, IPR, complementarities.
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