This paper studies the impact of research and development (R&D) and innovation on employment growth, focusing on small … and medium-sized firms. Employment effects of R&D and innovation are unclear a priori as process innovation may be labor … both R&D and innovation increased employment growth, suggesting that innovation was either capital-saving or labor had …

A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper …

finance availability constraints actually spurred innovation. Finally, the economy-wide effects of greater economic freedom …

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 outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted …

Using data on 135 countries, this paper studies the determinants of process innovation introduction, focusing on the … innovation introductions, while on the other hand, the introduction of innovations might enable firms to hedge against … uncertainty-innovation introductions. Employing two different measures of economic and political uncertainty across different time …

for different business strategies and innovation inputs connected to product and process innovations. The empirical … analysis uses innovation survey (CIS 2) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors, broken down in three firm size …

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining … data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …