. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high … innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …