Greenhalgh, Christine; Rogers, Mark; Schautschick, Philipp - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2011
A common assumption in innovation policy circles is that creative and inventive firms will help to sustain employment … wage benefits of such activity is rather sparse. In this paper we first survey some existing literature on innovation and … jobs. We outline arguments for using both patents and trade marks as indicators of innovation. We then construct a large …