Zoltan & Audretsch: innovation in LE and SE

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The greatest obstacle in understanding role of innovation in economic processes is

lack of meaningful measures of innovative inputs and outputs

The measure of innovative activity used in this paper is

  • the number of innovations in eacht SIC industry, recorded in 1982
  • Innovation data are classified to industry based on SIC code
  • Data are classified in: innovations by LE (more then 500 employees), and by SE (less then 500)

Administration classified each innovation according to one of the following levels of significance

  • innovation established an entirely new category of product
  • innovation is first of its type on the market in a product category already in existence
  • innovation is significant improvement in existing technology
  • innovation is modest improvement to update existing product
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Positive coefficient of LE employment share indicates

that the greater the proportion of an industry consisting of firms with more then 500 employers, the greater the innovation activity

While most empirical research examined only innovative activity contributed by LE, or the innovative output of SE. Zoltan present a model which

  • investigates the degree to which innovative output is affected by different industry characteristics
  • and the extend to which LE and SE respond differently to various stimuli

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