employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify … that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between Ramp;D expenditure, innovation output and …

and potentially misleading case studies. Daguerre, for instance, never obtained a patent in France and, instead, lobbied … representative samples drawn from Britain, France, and the United States, including “great inventors” and their ordinary counterparts … findings in part explain why innovation prizes lost favour as a technology policy instrument in both the United States and …

We analyze how demand conditions faced by a firm impacts its innovation decisions. To disentangle the direction of … causality between innovation and demand conditions, we construct a firm-level export demand shock which responds to aggregate … that this finding of a skewed innovation response to common demand shocks arises naturally from a model of endogenous …

knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey …

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D-to-innovation and innovation-to-productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a … industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and … innovation, and that their commercial efforts were enhanced by association with family firms. Their formerly invisible …