This paper explores the relationship between innovation and vocational training. We consider a linear feedback model to explain the dynamics of count data processes relative to patenting activities, R&D and training expenditures. Estimations are made on a panel data set relative to French...

This article investigates the effects of human capital and technological capital on innovation. While the role of technological capital as measured by research and development (R&D) expenditure has been intensively investigated, few studies have been made on the effect of employee training on...

Human capital is considered as one of the main inputs in economic growth. Human capital can generate endogenous growth thanks to a continuous process of knowledge and externalities accumulation (Aghion and Howitt, 1998). In that context, this paper explores the relationship between innovation...

In attempting to appropriate their innovations, firms can choose from a range of mechanisms, including patents, trade secrets and lead-times. Yet, little is known about how firms choose different appropriability mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to determine how the use of intellectual...

Notre étude a pour objectif de mesurer les effets spatiaux des externalités de connaissances sur la production de brevets des firmes, au niveau des villes. Nous utilisons une méthode originale basée sur le maximum d'entropie généralisé. Cette méthode permet de tester l'auto-correlation...

This paper simultaneously explores the firm-level relationships between R&D investments, innovation, training investments, quality and firm performance. It offers empirical evidence on how innovation, training and quality affect firm profitability. One new feature we introduce is the link...

This paper examines the knowledge creation, sharing and transferring process within manufacturing firms in an innovation perspective. Using French data set, we study complementarities between specific human resource management practices (HRMP) and knowledge management. We focus on four specific...