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Firms’ skills as drivers of radical and incremental innovation

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  • Doran, Justin
  • Ryan, Geraldine

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Using firm level data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2008–2010 we analyse the importance of eight skill sets for the innovation performance of firms. We distinguish between radical and incremental innovation. Our results suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in the importance of skills for different types of innovation and that some skills are best sourced from outside the firm while others are best developed in-house.

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  • Doran, Justin & Ryan, Geraldine, 2014. "Firms’ skills as drivers of radical and incremental innovation," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 125(1), pages 107-109.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:125:y:2014:i:1:p:107-109
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.08.011
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    Keywords

    Skills; Innovation; In-house; Outsource; Multivariate probit;
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    JEL classification:

    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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