R&D human resources in firms: What determines the educational level required?

This article analyses the determinants of the demand for R&D employees with different educational levels. The results from the estimations of an ordered logit model show that the main characteristics of the firms that explain the level of education required are university-firm cooperation, R&D intensity and how internal R&D activities are organized.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Garcia-Quevedo, Jose ; Mas-Verdu, Francisco ; Polo-Otero, Jose
Published in:	Applied Economics Letters. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1350-4851. - Vol. 18.2011, 16, p. 1537-1540
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals
Subject:	R&D \| skills \| human resources

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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