of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the …

. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …

). We find that a rise in the average age of a company's workforce has a negative impact on innovation, but age diversity …-specific knowledge gained during employment within a company. …