general hypothesis by looking at three topics: 1. Does innovation lead to an increase in employment growth? 2. Does innovation … boost labour productivity? 3. Does innovation in one period improve innovation performance in subsequent periods? … general hypothesis by looking at three topics: 1. Does innovation lead to an increase in employment growth? 2. Does innovation …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were not … profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to …

estimate a model relating firms' and industry's employment to innovation, that leads us to the conclusions that follow. Trend … increases in productivity reinforced by process innovation are an important source of reduction of employment requirements for a …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …