We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

determined by the industrial development triggered by changes in domestic demand, increases in FDI, intensive innovation efforts …

innovation, we characterize such "radical teams" as those formed by eclectic and non-usual collaborators, and those that are …

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

promotion. In this paper, we assess one popular justification for feed-in tariffs, i.e., induced innovation as a positive … spillover externality. Based on regressions with a time-technology fixed effect negative binomial model, we find that innovation …

Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …

innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …

The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry … on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance … analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The …