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The paper adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investments … contributions that have looked at SE in relation to innovation strategies is surprisingly limited. General trends of SE in Europe …
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Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across sectors would enable emerging countries to...
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This paper contributes to the policy discussion on Covid-19 by presenting real-time evidence on the magnitude of the shock for Italian firms. We take advantage of unique panel data on 7,800 companies between January 2020 {right before the pandemic{ and March of the same year {in the midst of...
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innovation, the "digital revolution". Radical advances in computing-, information- and communication-technology may deliver a …
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firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the … innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from difference-in-differences estimates show that firms that received the China … the China Top Brand Award on innovation outputs operate through higher government subsidies to winning firms. We also find …
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-qua-non for innovation, change and prosperity. But, is this concept completely wrong? Or is it perhaps relevant for specific parts …
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We examine the determinants of product, process, and organizational innovation, and their impact on firm labor … productivity using data from a unique innovation survey of firms in Pakistan. We find significant heterogeneity in the impact of … different innovations on labor productivity: Organizational innovation has the largest effect followed by process innovation …
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By using firm-level data provided by the fourth round of the (Italian) Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2012), this … paper explores whether the implementation of specific changes in work organisation within a firm influences its innovation … performance, not only directly, but also via reinforcing the link between human capital resources and innovation. The authors also …
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analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform … them into higher output. All five process innovation outputs are associated with higher labor productivity and higher sales …
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