Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive toR&D Investment

Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, thispaper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While findingfurther support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, thisstudy also tests the role of skill endowment in increasing a firms R&D investment....

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Piva, Mariacristina ; Vivarelli, Marco
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Innovation \| Nachfragetheorie \| Fertigkeit

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Extent:	216064 bytes 27 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 2562 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Corporate finance and investment policy. Other aspects ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Italy
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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