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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …

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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fosteringthe Complementarity of Innovative Inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn fromthe third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between fourdifferent sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and …

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Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive toR&D Investment

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, thispaper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While findingfurther support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, thisstudy also tests the role...

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Corporate R&D and Firm Effi ciency:Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal datasetconsisting of 532 top...

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