https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205159 2026-11-04T22:52:44Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205205 Title: Utilizing 5G Enhanced IoT Services for Improved Decision-Making in Environmental Resource Management Authors: Pearl, M. Alexander Abstract: The possibilities offered by moving to a 5G infrastructure are fairly well known-decreased latency, enhanced connectivity options, and greatly improved speeds. These technological advancements will make multi-player gaming easier, decrease download time for HD media, and allow for exciting possibilities regarding development of driverless cars technologies. The possible applications for 5G technology to enhance business and leisure stretch as far as the imagination. However, this paper is not about the technical aspect of 5G technology and infrastructure, nor is this paper about how 5G opens up new economic possibilities in various markets. Instead, this paper focuses on how 5G dramatically enhances our ability to obtain data (especially in real time) which opens up significant opportunities regarding how we use data to inform and improve decision-making at all levels. I argue that the move to 5G infrastructure and technology facilitates our ability to develop and deploy new Internet of Things-based services (IoT) in critical areas-like the management of scarce environmental resources. This paper explores the possible ways in which 5G infrastructure can facilitate the creation of new IoT services that improve our responses to the two greatest interrelated environmental threats of our lifetime: climate change and water scarcity. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205175 Title: Competition, technological change and productivity gains: the contribution of information technologies Authors: Ciriani, Stephane; Jeanjean, Francois Abstract: This paper addresses the empirical relationship between the level of competition and the rate of productivity growth across thirty sectors of the French production system during the period 1978- 2015. It shows that there exists an optimal level of competition for each sector that is defined by the mark-up that maximizes the growth rate of labor productivity. The information technologies Sectors have the highest mark-ups for maximizing productivity growth. The persistence of nonoptimal mark-ups in French sectors is associated with a 0.4% loss in aggregate average annual labor productivity growth during the period (1.86%). Hence, long-term productivity growth could have reached 2.25% if mark-ups had been at their optimal level. There is a strong significant positive correlation between the optimal mark-up and the rate of Hicks-neutral technical progress in each sector. This finding implies that sectors with high technical progress, as information technologies sectors, require higher mark-ups to maximize their rate of labor productivity growth. Overall, the aggregate economy would benefit from a decrease in the gap between nonoptimal and optimal mark-ups, as such an alignment would foster productivity growth. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205183 Title: Why Consumers Commit Voluntarily to Collaborative Innovation with Firms by Using Social Media?: Case of Japanese consumers Authors: Idota, Hiroki; Nakaya, Joji; Tsuji, Masatsugu Abstract: It is necessary to grasp and utilize consumer's needs for firms to improve existing products and developing new products. Especially, collaboration with consumers for product innovation is indispensable. On the other hand, social media has been spreading all over the world. Network communities formed by social media are one of key factors of innovation achieved by collaborating with consumer innovators, which is referred to as consumer collaborative innovation. This paper studies how Japanese firms achieve consumer collaborative innovation based on authors' questionnaire survey data in Japan. In particular, the types of users and the strength of ties between firms and consumers and types of consumer innovators are focused on. In addition, consumers' motivation of collaboration such as the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of lead users and collaborative innovators are elucidated. This paper finds the role of lead users and pecuniary rewards which are more important than other motivations. Based on results obtained, some measures to promote consumer collaborative innovation in Japan are proposed. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205201 Title: Will the data markets necessarily fail? A position paper Authors: Nikander, Pekka; Elo, Tommi Abstract: With the billions of Internet of Things devices connected via the 5G and other networks, loads of useful data are produced. However, the majority of these data are disappearing into the silos of cloud and IoT companies. This problem is exacerbated by the current economic system creating perverse incentives that push companies to keep their data private and not to sell or share them. From the society point of view, this leads to severe inefficiencies. More structurally, Adam Smith's invisible hand does not work: in the data markets, the public and private interests are not aligned by the current market forces. Based on these observations, we present a conjecture wherein we state that any attempts to fix the market failure in the data markets within the current economic structures are bound to be inefficient. Only by redefining fundamental economic concepts, such as ownership and money, we can efficiently align the interests, clear the markets, and gain welfare potential. Furthermore, we briefly suggest an urban community currency experiment wherein this conjecture could be empirically tested. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z