the relation between the introduction of innovation and subsequent firm growth in terms of sales. Recent contributions … examining the returns to innovation on firm performance have stressed the need of going beyond the analysis of the "average … adopt quantile treatment effects (QTE) which allow to estimate the effect of the introduction of innovation by comparing …

- 2010) matched with information on sector innovation derived from the Community Innovation Survey, we look at the impact of … innovation across small and medium-large firms, both on the average wages paid by firms and on the degree of within-firm wage …

, productivity growth and capital-labour conflict, with profits driven by product innovation and offshoring, and wages rising faster …

innovation, trying to map - using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which a … into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technological … transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of sectoral …

thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue …. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique … regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth …

This paper examines the relationship between firms' innovation activities and the hierarchy of financing behaviours. We … analyse the role of innovation inputs (R&D), intermediate outputs (patents) and outcomes (product and process innovations) as … identify the effect of innovation, alongside the size of the firm, its age and its human capital, on the order of directly …

As sustainable innovation becomes a strategy for companies to gain competitive advantage, the question of how to profit … from sustainable innovation becomes central. Surprisingly, little research exists on the appropriation strategies of … companies engaged in sustainable innovation and the few studies are poorly connected. This chapter focuses on intellectual …