Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > EINT-Entrepreneurship, Innovation and New Technology
Disciplines :
General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory
Author, co-author :
Obschonka, Martin
FISCH, Christian ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and New Technology (EINT)
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
From humans to machines: Researching entrepreneurial AI agents built on large language models
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