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industrial concentration and innovation. The industries having great capital intensity, small employment of labor, and with high … innovation. …
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industrial concentration and innovation. The industries having great capital intensity, small employment of labor, and with high … innovation …
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in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2010. The authors find past and path … dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D effort in both types of innovation. Nevertheless, for product innovation, the … process innovation. …
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in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990–2010. The authors find past and path … dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D effort in both types of innovation. Nevertheless, for product innovation, the … process innovation. …
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technological innovation from the perspective of the gender of executives. Methods/Approach: A quantitative approach and cross … obtained from multi-group analysis evidence that process innovation has a strong and significant positive impact on the … innovation of products, and no significant differences were found when comparing the performance of male executives versus female …
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The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor … market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate …; (iii) more rigid labor market regulations (minimum wages and severance payments) reduce the effects of innovation. …
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concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous …
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Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms will reduce costs, but the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and privately owned ambulances in a setting where patients are as good as randomly assigned to ambulances of...
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Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a …/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental innovation may spur from exogenous driving forces, like policy intervention, and/or from … order to assess what forces are lying behind environmental innovation at the level of the firm, where innovative practices …
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capacity to handle innovation projects internally and as competition increases, so does the payoff of an edge to competitors …. -- R&D ; innovation ; competition ; service sector …The central prediction of the Aghion et al. (2005) model is an inverted U-shaped relation between innovation and …
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