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thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue …. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique … regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth …
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types of product and process innovation on employment growth with an outlook on the whole conditional employment growth … distribution. Results show that product innovation - especially in terms of good new to the entire market - has a positive effect … innovation appears instead to have less clear-cut dynamics, consistently with existing evidence. Among different types of process …
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We investigate the effects of R&D investment on performance outcomes (sales growth and relative profitability) for Indian manufacturing firms. Previous research shows contradictory results - while some studies find a positive effect of R&D on firm performance, some find that firms investing in...
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This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...
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piecewise exponential model linking survival times, observed in the time period from 2001 to 2015, to longitudinal innovation … contingent to the form of innovation: technological innovations entail a more effective and enduring premium, as compared to …
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-organisational configurations of these factories confirm that this wave of technological innovation is far from leading to total automation or the …
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In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …
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This paper is based on the acknowledgment that NK models are an extremely useful tool in order to represent and study the complexity stemming from interactions among components of a system. For this reason NK models have been applied in many domains, such as Organizational Sciences and...
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This study analyses persistence in growth rates of the entire population of Dutch manufacturing firms. Previous literature on firm growth rates shows that extreme growth events are likely to be negatively correlated over time. A rebound effect following an extreme growth event questions the...
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constraints based on credit ratings and available for a large panel of Italian exporting and non exporting firms. Our estimation …
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