Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment

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Author: David B. Audretsch

ISBN-10: 0521142717

ISBN-13: 9780521142717

Category: Economic Development

Traditional approaches to creating employment and economic growth have failed in the 1990s. A new understanding of what creates jobs and drives growth has emerged in a cross-disciplinary approach which combines industrial organization, the economics of technological change, labor economics, and international economics. The new approach focuses on the dynamics of firms and industries as sources of innovation (and consequently increased competitiveness, job creation, and economic growth), and...

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Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment offers a new cross-disciplinary approach to employment creation and economic growth.

1Introduction12Wages, firm size, and wage inequality: How much do exports matter?133Trade, technology, and wage differentials in the Canadian manufacturing sector574Industrial structure and economic growth865The impact of competition on productivity in Dutch manufacturing1116Does cash flow cause investment and R&D? An exploration using panel data for French, Japanese, and United States scientific firms1297Innovation, cooperation, and the region1578Industry clusters: biotechnology/biomedicine and polymers in Ohio and Sweden1829How and why does knowledge spill over in biotechnology?21610Do services differ from manufacturing? The post-entry performance of firms in Dutch services23011Who exits from German manufacturing industries and why? Evidence from the Hannover Firm Panel study25312Technology intensity, demand conditions, and the longevity of firms26513Does startup size influence the likelihood of survival?28014Barriers to growth of firms in developing countries: evidence from Burundi297Index315