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This paper analyses the relationship between innovation and employment for Spanish manufacturing firms with data from … Panel of Technological Innovation between 2004 to 2010. Following the model developed by Harrison et al. (2008), the results …
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Process innovation is an important part of firms’ innovation activities and supposed to significantly contribute to … positive returns from innovation. Measuring process innovation output at the firm level is still in its infancy, however. This … paper reports empirical evidence on measures of process innovation output that have been collected in the German part of the …
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This paper examines the relationship between the characteristics of firm knowledge in terms of capital, diversity and relatedness, and productivity. Panel data regression models suggest that unlike knowledge diversity, knowledge capital and knowledge relatedness explain a substantial share of...
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This paper investigates the determinants of EPO (European Patent Office) patent applications per capita using a panel of 22 OECD countries with data measured as five-year averages for the period 1980-1999. The patent production function is specified as a partial adjustment model and is estimated...
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Process innovation is an important part of firms' innovation activities and supposed to significantly contribute to … positive returns from innovation. Measuring process innovation output at the firm level is still in its infancy, however. This … paper reports empirical evidence on measures of process innovation output that have been collected in the German part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876071
The paper adds to the scattered empirical evidence on the role of obstacles to innovation in a three-fold way. First …, we correct for the usual sample selection bias by filtering out firms not interested in innovation from ‘potential … are as important as financing conditions in determining firms’ innovation failures. This evidence puts much of the latest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208190
The goal of this paper is to assess the influence of spatial mobility of knowledge workers on the formation of ties of scientific and industrial collaboration across European regions. Co-location has been traditionally invoked to ease formal collaboration between individuals and firms, since tie...
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the amount of financial effort devoted to it. The paper contributes to the innovation literature in three respects: first …, it adds to the revived debate on demand-pull perspectives in innovation studies, by specifically looking at demand …-related (lack of) incentives to invest in innovation. Also, importantly, it complements the emerging literature on barriers to …
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The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of the decision to innovate in Taiwan. Three “innovation … technology is affected by the current changes. We identify a non-linear relationship between firm size and innovation. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985021
Utilising panel data for 14 East European transition economies, we find support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of export variety relative to the U.S. helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...
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