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Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata.

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques; Lotti, Francesca - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor...

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Is that Innovation? Assessing Examples of Revitalized Economic Dynamics among Clusters of Small Producers in Northern Vietnam

Voeten, Jaap; Haan, Job de; Groot, Gerard de - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by studying four cases of new technologies, products and business practices in traditional craft in Northern Vietnam. The paper starts with reviewing definitions of innovation since...

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Private Capacity and Public Failure: Contours of Livestock Innovation Response Capacity in Kenya

Keskin, Ekin; Steglich, Mirjam; Dijkman, Jeroen; Hall, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Globalization, urbanization and new market demands - together with ever-increasing quality and safety requirements - are putting significantly greater pressures on agrifood stakeholders in the world. The ability to respond to new challenges and opportunities is important not just for producers...

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Innovation and productivity

Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this relationship is presented and the implications of analysis using this model and the usually available data on product and process innovation are derived. The recent empirical...

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Innovative Sales, R&D and Total Innovation Expenditures:Panel Evidence on their Dynamics

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Schim … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum likelihood a dynamic panel data bivariate tobit with...

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Learning and the structure of citation networks

Lafond, Francois - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

The distribution of citations received by scientific publications can be approximated by a power law, a finding that … popularity, and a shifted power law for the distribution of citations received. The two distributions flatten if there is … relatively more learning. The predicted exponent for the distribution of citations is independent of the average in-(or out …

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Measuring Eco-Innovation

Arundel, Anthony; Kemp, Rene - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

In this paper we offer a discussion of eco-innovation and methods for measuring it. Eco-innovation is a new concept of great importance to business and policy makers, covering many innovations of environmental benefit. Past research and measurement activity primarily focused on pollution control...

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Innovation strategies and employment in Latin American firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Zuniga, Pluvia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate...

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Nonlinearities in productivity growth: A semi-parametric panel analysis

Azomahou, Theophile; Diene, Bity; Diene, Mbaye - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

We use country panel data spanning over 1998-2008 for both developed and developing countries to study the productivity growth when countries are close to the technology frontier. Relying on a semi-parametric generalized additive model, we estimate both reduced and structural forms for total...

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