outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …

for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new … homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by introducing different types of innovation investments (R&D and technology … acquisition) for different sets of companies.Using the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) dataset comprising more than 3000 Italian …

This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation …

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 - 2000 …). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

Canadian immigrants to innovation is, in large part, explained by the low employment rates of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants …

incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous …