Human capital is identified as one of the main determinants of economic growth and plays
an important role in the technological progress of countries. Nevertheless, existing studies …

This paper focuses on paths towards innovation and considers different types of innovation.
It develops a new framework to analyze the internal and external factors that influence the …

In this article we discuss how to summarize the persistent and large heterogeneity in
innovative behaviour and economic performance. A revision of the Pavitt (1984) Taxonomy …

This paper analyzes the effect of various innovation strategies (ISs) of firms on their future
performance, captured by labor productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation …

Firms that invest in R&D and also in worker training are expected to be successful
innovators; yet, the extent to which these investments are mutually reinforcing has not been …

Using a rich panel dataset of small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs)
active in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam, this paper investigates the drivers of firm …

This paper investigates how human capital affects trademark applications at the firm level.
We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy to examine the impact of human capital on …

The paper carries out an analysis of long-run development paths in Latin America in the
period 1970–2010. We focus on three main dimensions—openness, industrial structure and …

This paper examines the effect of persistence in product and process innovations on the
employment dynamics of a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms observed …

This article empirically analyzes the link between public procurement (PP) and innovation
activities, by taking into account the moderating effect played by import penetration on PP …