...Juan Manuel Menéndez Blanco; José-Luis Montes-Botella Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the importance and contribution of human capital, combined with human resources and research and development (R&D) measures, to nurturing company resilience as new knowledge and human capital...

... to changes in the self-use-input-requirement of the professional, scientific and technical services (PSTS) industry. Findings – The PSTS industry (with a significant research and development (R&D) component and the highest forward linkage index) would be hardest hit with the collapse of the motor...

... Research and development For instance, Leiponen (2005) underlines the fact that skills are an important component of absorptive capacity, being complementary to internal R&D, collaborative R&D joint ventures and a firm's implementation of external knowledge; her results clearly indicate...

... Research and development Mathematical modelling Most of the major industrial economies experienced during the second half of the 1990s an increase in the speed of economic growth rates, although some countries in Continental Europe (especially France, Germany and Italy) [1] achieved growth rates...

... persistence. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Unemployment Research and development Innovation The papers proposed in this Special Issue were selected from those presented at the International Conference organised by the Applied Econometrics Association on “Policies against...

... major characteristics of the computer industry, and the computerisation of production processes. The capital industry comprises two activities, one of production, the other of research and development. Capital goods are totally destroyed by their use in production. As a consequence, capital...

... productivity Research and development To address these issues empirically I use a sample of male technical employees (computer technicians, engineers and technical workers) employed in the US manufacturing sector between 1981 and 1992. Data on R&D intensities for 2‐digit US manufacturing sectors...