This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration …

' innovation ability. The World Bank's Enterprise Survey is used first to estimate the return to firms' innovation across many … developing countries, in terms of sales and sales per worker. Then the return to innovation is compared across countries with … quality, property and patent right protection), the return to firms' innovation is lower. This suggests that poor …

Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as … growth. Using a recent firm-level innovation survey for Chile to compare the manufacturing and "tradable" services sector …

The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and … total factor productivity, exhibit higher employment growth than non-innovative firms. The strength of firms' innovation … conventional wisdom that innovation-driven growth is not inclusive in that it is focused on jobs characterized by higher levels of …

Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and … ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market … mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies that are needed to improve outcomes. Although many countries now …

empirical relationship between economic development and (1) inside-the-frontier innovation as reflected by the introduction of …-the-frontier innovation as reflected in patents. The data suggest, unsurprisingly, that inside-the-frontier innovation is more common among … changes in the industrial composition of exports. The authors use a simple model of innovation and imitation to test the …

While existing evidence in advanced economies suggests a possible role for technological innovation in job creation … technological as well as organizational innovation on firm level employment growth based on the theoretical model of Harrison … a positive direct role of innovation on the quantity of employment but at a decreasing rate as firms' transition to the …