The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Solow residual relates to innovation at the firm level. We estimate two … kinds of relationships. The first relationship explains innovation output from innovation inputs. The second relationship … relates TFP growth to innovation output. We obtain two main results. First, the determinants of incremental and radical …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

This paper estimates the association between innovation and employment growth among manufacturing firms in Africa. The … paper uses a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise Survey dataset in which innovation is categorised as product innovation … and process innovation. Results from the pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation are more efficient compared to IV …

This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in … increase in labour productivity by 6.5% and an increase in the likelihood of a successful product innovation by about 1 …

of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out by …

There is growing interest in modeling the relationship between innovation and productivity in developing and transition … whether there is a significant relationship between technological innovation and productivity in the manufacturing sector of … Estonia. We use firm-level data for the analysis from two waves of Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3 and CIS4) from 1998 …

apply the general concept of social interactions to the area of the economics of innovation and technological change. In …