King’s College London
King's College London, Strand, London, UK
Job description
This full-time post relates to funding received from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Productivity Institute. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work full-time on a 24-month project entitled “Skill, digitalisation and productivity in UK frontier firms’' focusing on original data collection and qualitative research in a sample of companies in leading R&D sectors.
The ESRC funded project will investigate three questions: i) how are firms adapting skill and innovation strategies to harness digital technologies (DTs) for productivity growth?; ii) how do DT-induced changes in collaborations with external organisations contribute to skill, innovation and productivity gains?; and iii) what are the automation and augmentation effects of DTs, and how are they distributed within the firm?
The project will be hosted and managed at King’s Business School (King’s College London), one of the academic...