TECHNOFIRMS

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The landscape of jobs and work is evolving at an unprecedented speed, driven by advances in computer and engineering technologies, such as artificial intelligence and robotics, which have moved from the factory floor to an expanding array of knowledge and service occupations. There is no indication that this trend will slow down in the coming years. These changes promise benefits to society with the creation of new industries and occupations, increased productivity and opportunities for innovation, but they bring risks as well: many of these technological advances have an automation component which erodes human skills, scales back the need for some workers and might even eliminate some job sectors. “Winner-takes-all” effects raise concerns about the magnitude of the market power of the most successful big tech companies and their potential negative impact on aggregate welfare.

Whether benefits will outscore threats is at this stage an entirely open question, both to social scientists and policy makers.

In the TECHNOFIRMS project, we hypothesize that this quantification challenge can be addressed by adopting a much more detailed look at how firms actually deal with new technologies than previously achieved. 

This website presents the team involved in the project, as well as all our activities and research output.

The project is scheduled to start mid-March 2023, and is funded by the ANR until mid-March 2028.