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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent - 2015

is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

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Racing Against Time in Research : A Study of the 1995 U.S. Patent Law Amendment

Kim, Jinyoung - 2017

increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R … more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice - 2012

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia : Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?

Almeida, Rita - 2009

This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an …

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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2008

commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions …

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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Almeida, Rita - 2007

This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...

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Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …

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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption : Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet A. - 2014

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...

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Globalization and Employment : Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...

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