' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and innovation activities ultimately shape the patterns of employment dynamics …. Using firm's productivity growth as a proxy for process innovation, our results show that the latter correlates negatively … innovation and patenting activities on employment growth appear to be negligible. …

interpretative achievements stemming from e.g. the economics of innovation, industrial economics, epistemilogy of knowledge, economic … dynamic coupling between technological learning, forms of corporate organization and economic evolution. -- Innovation …