Skills, Not Scale: GenAI and Technology Adoption.

Autor/inn/en	Bilgin, Nuriye Melisa; Ottaviano, Gianmarco
Institution	Centre for Economic Policy Research
Titel	Skills, Not Scale: GenAI and Technology Adoption. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Fähigkeiten, nicht Maßstab: GenAI und Technologieeinführung.
Quelle	London (2026), 25 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CEPR discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research. 21506
Beigaben	Anhang
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Künstliche Intelligenz; Maschinelles Lernen; Automatisierung; Roboter; Diffusion; Kostenstruktur; Unternehmen; Unternehmensgröße; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsstruktur; Handhabungstechnik; Anwendung; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Text Mining; Türkei
Abstract	"Do the determinants of technology adoption depend on technological architecture? Using administrative data on Turkish firms from 2021 to 2024, we compare the adoption of traditional and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). We show that GenAI adoption is driven by workforce skill intensity and is not positively associated with firm size, whereas traditional AI depends on both scale and skills. Firms that adopt both technologies are distinct and represent the most persistent adoption mode. Conditional on adoption, the skill-to-size ratio governs technology choice, and transition dynamics indicate a sequential process in which firms adopt GenAI before expanding to hybrid use. Exploiting the release of ChatGPT as a quasi-experimental reduction in access costs, we find that high-skill firms differentially increased GenAI adoption, while firm size played a limited role. These results suggest that the canonical size-based diffusion pattern is not universal but depends on the cost structure of technologies, with implications for innovation policy and productivity dispersion." The study refers to the period 2021-2024 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2026/4