This work explores the relationship between temporary employment and product innovation focusing on five major European … characteristics and regimes finding that industries using temporary employment tend to have a weaker product innovation propensity …. The negative correlation between temporary employment and innovation is stronger in medium and hightech sectors …

debate, especially in phases of economic recession. So far, the effects of innovation - in its manifold declinations and … different compensation mechanisms through which employment adjusts after an innovation is introduced. Secondly, it critically … attempt to conceptualize a number of stylized facts and empirical regularities on the innovation-employment nexus. …

relationships between innovation and international performance. While periods of upswing are characterised by a well documented … 'virtuous circle'. between innovation inputs, new products and export success, during downswings most of the positive … diversity of technological change allows to disentangle the specificities and effects of innovation inputs and outputs, and of …

In this work we test if persistent innovators, defined according to different innovation activities (R&D, product and … process innovation, patenting) grow more than other firms, and if innovation persistence can contribute to explain the so far … definition of persistent innovators traditionally based on innovation surveys. Our findings, against the expectations, support …