Impact of ICT Utilization on Innovations and on Labor Productivity: Micro-level Analysis for Poland

Lukasz Arendt () and Wojciech Grabowski
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Lukasz Arendt: University of Lodz

A chapter in Modeling Innovation Sustainability and Technologies, 2018, pp 225-247 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter studies the relationship between innovations, use of Information and Communication Technologies and labor productivity in the Polish enterprises. The research framework takes advantage of the Crepon–Duguet–Mairesse (CDM) model and the new firm paradigm, which focuses on the co-innovative productivity sources. Within this study, factors determining implementation of innovations (product, process-organizational and marketing) are identified and joint impact of innovations, ICT use and complementary factors on labor productivity, are evaluated. Estimation of the simultaneous discrete choice model revealed that there is complementary relationship between ICT and all types of innovations. We also showed that human capital positively influences product and marketing innovations, while organizational readiness enhances product and process-organizational innovations. These two types of innovations have positive impact on labor productivity in the Polish firms. The results confirm the mediating role of co-innovative productivity sources - ICT alone do not enhance labor productivity, but we recorded productivity gains if ICT were complemented by other mediating factors.

Keywords: Innovations; ICT; Productivity; ICT complementarities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67101-7_17

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