, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

This paper investigates the innovation impact of intangibles by considering the decision of firms to invest in a … these investments are directed to. Intangibles need to be managed strategically in order to have an innovation impact and …

The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro … by raising their R&D expenditures. Most of the jobs in the economy are created by innovation followers: increasing … innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when R&D intensity is …

We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous … relationship between the R&D-driven innovation and firm employment as well as address important econometric issues, which is not … innovation and employment entails important non-linearities responsible for significant differences in employment response to …