Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011
database covering 677 European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990-2008. Main result from the whole sample … significant job creation effect of R&D expenditures is detectable in services and high-tech manufacturing but absent in the more … traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment effects from increasing R&D in the …