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Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive to R&D Investment

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Mariacristina Piva () (Università Cattolica Piacenza)
Marco Vivarelli () (Università Cattolica Piacenza, CSGR Warwick, Max Planck Institute of Economics Jena, and IZA)

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Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, this paper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, this study also tests the role of skill endowment in increasing a firm’s R&D investment. Consistently with the related managerial and economic literature, our basic result is that current skill endowment may significantly and positively influence a firm’s current R&D decision. These microeconometric results have been obtained using a Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) estimator, a recently-proposed panel data technique particularly suitable for small samples.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2562.

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Date of creation: Jan 2007
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Keywords: skills and innovation; R&D expenditures; endogenous skill bias; demand-pull; LSDVC estimator;

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O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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  1. Alessandra Catozzella & Marco Vivarelli, 2007. "The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs," IZA Discussion Papers 3126, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  2. Daniele Cerrato & Mariacristina Piva, 2007. "The Internationalization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: the Effect of Family Management, Human Capital and Foreign Ownership," DISCE - Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali dises0748, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE). [Downloadable!]
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