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of corporate R&D investment trends, drivers and impacts. This paper focuses on the main differences between the EU and … changes in the structure of the US economy than in the EU in the last two decades which in turn have favoured the growth in … the US of higher R&D-intensity sectors to a larger extent than in the EU; (b) younger and smaller-sized US companies are …
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In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 15 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...
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role, especially in new high-tech sectors. This view of a structural EU innovation deficit has many supporters. But it has … to the US, the EU has fewer young firms among its leading innovators. But this accounts for only about one-third of the … EU-US differential. The largest part of the differential is due to the fact that young leading innovators in the EU are …
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In this article, we analyse the microeconomic relationship between innovation and employment, using company data from the R&D Scoreboard for Europe covering 2000-2008. A reduced form labour demand equation is estimated. In the equation, R&D can account for both product and process innovation....
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proxy with the presence and importance of subsidiaries in the EU, North America and Asia-Pacific regions. The sample …
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demographics (creation and growth) of EU companies operating in new/knowledge-intensive industries, especially Small and Medium … targeting innovative company growth in Europe. The result of this work indicates that: a) EU needs support policies to foster R …
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Financial constraints for young and small firms can prevent them from supporting innovation and employment creation. We analyze two of the various institutional mechanisms which have been proposed to circumvent it: the development of venture capital market and the stock market access. We will...
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This paper assesses whether European firms' innovative performance is impacted by investments in training directly aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by the number of R&D personnels. In particular, it explores...
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The effect of the EU Research Framework Programme (FP) on European company innovation performance is analysed for the …
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