unique longitudinal database covering 677 European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990-2008. The main …. 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. …

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU- 15, for the aggregate … service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an … gap in the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is …

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 …

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …