Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and … firms. Common knowledge stands that innovation is the cause of the increase of exports. However, contradicting empirical … evidences are reported in the literature on the causality between innovation and export. In this paper we examine whether …

Innovation is central to economic growth, as the area in which it develops takes the whole sphere of economic … measures that European countries which already apply and Romania, willing to encourage innovation. The present paper presents … innovation and also the ways of applying it within small and medium sized enterprises. …

This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only …

classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not … difference in differences were combined. The study found that by supporting both process and product innovation … product innovation activities. …