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Evolution of Globalised business R&D: Features, drivers, impacts
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Voigt, Peter; … - 2011
The globalisation of R&D activities has continued to grow as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has brought researchers and analysts to...
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Employment Effect of Innovation
Kancs, D'Artis; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2015
The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our … destruct jobs by raising their R&D expenditures. Most of the jobs in the economy are created by innovation followers …: increasing innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when R …
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Job Creation Effects of R&D Expenditures: Are High-tech Sectors the Key?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2011
In this paper we assess the job creation effect of R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database of 677 European companies over the period 1990-2008. We estimate a dynamic labour demand specification using a Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) technique. The labour-friendly...
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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - 2010
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firm performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset on top European R&D investors over the period...
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R&D and Non-Linear Productivity Growth of Heterogeneous Firms
Kancs, d'Artis; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2012
The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these issues, we employ a two step estimation approach, and...
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