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...

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...

This paper examines the determinants of young innovative companies’ (YICs) R&D activitiestaking into account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990-2008, we find that previousR&D experience is a...

The aim of this study is to test the possible catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering thecomplementarity of innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn fromthe third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998-2000). The interactions between fourdifferent sources of...

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...