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How Artificial Intelligence Affects Technological Innovations

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This chapter investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) may impact technological innovation. It first defines what technological innovation entails, and then it establishes 10 general propositions. At the end, this chapter empirically validates some of these results by using provincial panel data of China from 2003 to 2015.

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  1. Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock, PA, USA

    Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest

  2. School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

    Yong Liu

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Forrest, J.YL., Liu, Y. (2022). How Artificial Intelligence Affects Technological Innovations. In: Value in Business. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82898-1_18

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