In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … the impact of innovation on employment growth depends on the macroeconomic situation. …

The central prediction of the Aghion et al. (2005) model is an inverted U-shaped relation between innovation and …-sector firms. However, non-exporting service firms deviate from the overall pattern. A more detailed breakdown of innovation … capacity to handle innovation projects internally and as competition increases, so does the payoff of an edge to competitors. …

instrumental variables regression reveals that especially innovation and industry agglomeration foster employment growth in …