This article considers the voluntary disclosure of technical knowledge (research opportunities, scientific breakthroughs, positive tests results, etc.) that are commonly observed in many industries. A two step technological race model is used to define those conditions under which disclosure...

This study examines the persistence of innovation in French manufacturing firms over the period 1986-1996. We find that innovation is strongly persistent at the firm level and that the nature of this persistence depends on the size of the firm. While learning-by-doing may explain innovation...

The business start-up loans program has been introduced in France to improve the financing of new firms with a view to helping them survive and grow without a too heavy financial burden. The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of this program on the survival of French new firms, on...

The aim of this article is to underline the development of the Evolutionary Theory starting from the original book of Nelson and Winter [1982]. This book is inspired by the Shumpeterian and Simonian traditions even if these authors are abandoning some of their core hypothesises. Nelson and...

Numerous papers show that organizational and ? in a lesser extent ? technical innovation lead to an increase of firms? demand of qualifications. This paper sheds some complementary empirical light to this question by assessing links between innovation and training. It uses an original set of...