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 …

investigate the nexus between the use of non-standard work and innovation performance using data for 18 manufacturing and 23 … arrangements and the introduction of both product and process innovation. Furthermore, we show that the harmful consequences of the … spread of non-standard work on firms' product innovation propensity are more pronounced in high-tech sectors. …