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This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …
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This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and … of innovation outputs in all three countries. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to …
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This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an … alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation projects they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to firms' innovative capability. Econometric …
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This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs … of churning exceed the benefits is reached faster if the R&D knowledge is non-duplicative. -- innovation ; churning …
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Extending a recently developed multiproduct model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …
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This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … that were not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152558
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
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Using firm-level data from the German manufacturing sector, we estimate a dynamic, structural model of the firm’s decision to invest in R&D and quantify the cost and longrun benefit of this investment. The model incorporates and quantifies linkages between the firm’s R&D investment, product...
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A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far … there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper …. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment …
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