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Job Creation Effects of R&D Expenditures: Are High-tech Sectors the Key?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011
In this paper we assess the job creation effect of R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database of 677 European companies over the period 1990-2008. We estimate a dynamic labour demand specification using a Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) technique. The labour-friendly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886125
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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata
Barbieri, Laura; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584669
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R&D Expenditures and Employment: Evidence from Europe
Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608920
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Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653268
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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU
Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653309
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Top Team Demographics, Innovation And Business Performance: Findings From English Firms And Cities, 2008-9
Nathan, Max - 2013
knowledge or better access to international markets). These channels may be balanced by internal downsides (lower trust) and … information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397296
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Is corporate R&D investment in high-tech sectors more effective? Some guidelines for European Research Policy
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - 2009
This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269087
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Entrepreneurship, development, and the spatial context: Retrospect and prospect
Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the various contributions to the entrepreneurship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273521
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Does easy start-up formation hamper incumbents' R&D investment? A theoretical and empirical analysis
Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2013
Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293234
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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2005
This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297455