investigations that have focused on the relationship between innovation and employment, the originality of our approach lies in our …-creating potential of firms of different sizes. As a result, we focus on the effect of innovation on total number of jobs, whereas … previous studies have focused on the effect of innovation on firm behavior. Indeed, previous studies have typically taken the …

Innovation is commonly seen as the principal engine of economic development. In this paper, we investigate the … microfoundations of economic growth by relating innovation to sales growth at the firm-level, for incumbent firms in four «complex …

We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific … inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … a patent pool may actually be pro-competitive. After a brief introduction, we explain in the first part why, and on what …

prospect for the labour market for scientists, and other papers, which showed earnings differences between engineering …

sign that something is "wrong" and is to be regarded as a problem for policy. Evolutionary theory, on the other hand … not a helpful starting point for empirical studies into firm growth. one caricature of neoclassical theory could be … "Assume firms are perfectly efficient. Why aren't they getting enoug funding ?", whereas evolutionary theory considers that …