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We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
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This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
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subsample of 2,949 firms from the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). A bivariate probit analysis framework is … innovation intensity. This paper also discusses an alternative test procedure that permits an extension of Cragg's test in the … analysis of survey data with weighted observations. Results show that R&D is strictly linked to product innovation, while TA is …
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), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …
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how it they are influenced by a country's "innovation system". Substitution depends on demand and production elasticities …, and other factors influenced by the innovation system. Making use of World Economic Forum data we estimate the … relationship for thirteen countries and find that countries with poor innovation capabilities substitute robots for workers much …
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This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …
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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 …
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This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …
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different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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