The paper investigates the dual effect of innovation on employment and skill upgrading in manufacturing and service … countries, we find that product innovation has a consistent positive effect on employment growth. This effect is similar for … employment. We also study the impact of innovation on skill upgrading and find that increasing the share of firms engaged in …

China has long wanted and envisioned the development of self-innovation as a means to drive its economy to one of the … argument that innovation is the primary way that increasing economic returns are achieved and that this is what drives economic … growth. There is a long trail of attempts to build an innovation based economy in China but until quite recently the progress …

Written by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this … why competence building and innovation are crucial for economic growth and competitiveness in the current era. It also …1. The objective : to stimulate a knowledge-based debate about innovation policy -- 2. Innovation -- 3. The innovation …