This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

This paper analyses the determinants of different innovation types. Beside a wide range of firm characteristics also … rate and the share of MINT-graduates. The unemployment rate has also for some of the innovation combos a significant effect …. The proportion of MINT-graduates is relevant for the probability of all 4 innovation types simultaneously …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …

testable hypotheses to distinguish induced innovation from standard substitution of capital for labor under fixed technology … rising wages have induced labor-saving innovation in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but less so or not at all …

structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …

We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …

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 …