This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

increase in the share of government purchases in high-tech industries increases the rewards for innovation, and stimulates … findings bring public procurement within the realm of the innovation policy debate. …

This paper investigates the effect of domestic market size on innovation activities across different durable good …

innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …

Technology is a key element for long-term growth and economic development. Given the stark concentration of innovation … into an innovation club, an imitation club whose members are capable of absorbing technologies developed by the former and …