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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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between FDI, Human Capital and Innovation at a corporate level. Based on a set of large and innovative firms (national and …
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the chronological time variable, or the speed of knowledge accumulation along time, neglecting the nature of the … considerable simplification in literature by deriving, by construction, a measure of dynamic gains of knowledge following the … interplay of stock of scientific and technological knowledge and the flow of effort in R&D. This scheme is then applied to study …
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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...
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outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …
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We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge …
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We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
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automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …
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autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …
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Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …
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