innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

Firms in younger labor markets produce more innovation. We establish this by instrumenting the current labor force with … unobservable heterogeneity across local labor markets and firms, life cycles, and other effects. Corporate innovation in younger … as a group – inventors interacting with non-inventors – produce more innovation for firms through the labor supply …

This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement …

group of relevant innovators. -- Innovation ; patent data ; solar technologies ; climate change …. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total … innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation … expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this paper we analyse the evolution of firms' innovation and R&D activities …

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. …

This paper explores the drivers of inter-firm R&D collaborations in a particular type of innovation network, the … technological districts created in Italy under a specific public policy to promote innovation. The empirical analysis used an … important to enhance the innovation capabilities of small firms and their performance. …

studying whether the relative regional importance of Mittelstand firms has an effect on regional innovation performance. Using …-managed SMEs and patent applications is identified. This finding is highly robust when controlling for spatial correlations as they …