Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - In: International Journal of Manpower 30 (2009) November, pp. 835-852
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. Design/methodology/approach – A balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period has been used to test the technology-push, the demand-pull and the...