” approach to innovation in LDCs. Participation in GVC is beneficial for firms in LDCs, which are bound to source technology …

probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level survey, we show that outsourcing processes … have a positive impact on firms’ innovation. In particular, the outsourcing of service activities contributes the most to … innovation, thus suggesting that firms successfully pursue core strengthening strategies. Our econometric estimates show that …

The main goal of this paper is to assess the impact of product innovation on the economic performance of firms … dataset on Italian firms we estimate, by means of propensity scores matching methods, a positive and significant “innovation …. We also find that this innovation premium is particularly large for small firms and even more so when considering new …

and through both incremental and architectural innovation. There is little empirical evidence, however, on whether modular … modelling and data from 233 firms, we find that partial modular designs harm incremental and architectural innovation. Only …

fundamental determinants of the patterns of innovation, demand structure plays indeed a crucial role in preventing the emergence …