De impact van innovatie op de groei van toegevoegde waarde en tewerkstelling

The paper studies the impact of product, process and combined product and process innovations on firm growth, both in terms of (sector price deflated) value added and average employment, while controlling for various growth related characteristics of firms. It also compares the growth performance, and other characteristics like capital intensity, share of blue collar workers...of firms that see themselves as independent units with those that, as a daughter or mother company, are part of a group.…

The paper studies the impact of product, process and combined product and process innovations on firm growth, both in terms of (sector price deflated) value added and average employment, while controlling for various growth related characteristics of firms. It also compares the growth performance, and other characteristics like capital intensity, share of blue collar workers...of firms that see themselves as independent units with those that, as a daughter or mother company, are part of a group. This paper is the second analysis made in the framework of the SSTC2 -program on “relocation, innovation and employment”, making use of a survey responded by 466 firms located in Belgium