This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activity …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …