Corporate skills as an ex-ante incentive to R&D investment
By: by Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli.
Contributors: Vivarelli, Marco, 1963-
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2562; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2562
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Manufactures -- Italy.; Research, Industrial -- Italy.
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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