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Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international … stronger dispersed international R&D activities hamper or stimulate innovation. Second, we employ two well-established market …-based indicators for innovation (introduction of and sales growth rates due to new products) instead of looking at inventions (patents …
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This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs … of churning exceed the benefits is reached faster if the R&D knowledge is non-duplicative. -- innovation ; churning …
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This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
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A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far … there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper …. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment …
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dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …
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This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …
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product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …
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Firms invest huge amounts into intangible assets. This paper explores to which extent different kinds of intangible assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital,...
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This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and … of innovation outputs in all three countries. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to …
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This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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