This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …

higher in firms that experienced a change in the controlling shareholder. The latter firms also have a stronger turnover …-performance relationship. We find evidence supporting the hypothesis that changes in control are an extreme form of turnover. We also find …

that Italy is a much less egalitarian society than Norway, with a larger scope of establishing gender equality, our results …

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

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …