...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...

... Innovation Demand Research and development It is widely recognized that corporate skills and technological innovation [1] are complementary. However, most previous studies have only focused on one direction of causality, namely on the “skill‐biased” impact of innovation (see infra). The novelty...

... focuses for government policy in the recent decades has been the poor productivity performance of European countries as compared to the USA (Griffith et al., 2006). The relevance of research and development (R&D) has been widely recognised as a driving force for long‐term labour‐productivity...

... of capital are tailored so as to portray certain 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...

... test can be implemented for testing the validity of the set of instruments used (Arellano and Bond, 1991 ; Blundell and Bond, 1998) [10] . Employee productivity Productivity rate Research and development Mathematical modelling Most of the major industrial economies experienced during...

... testing of the hypothesis under scrutiny. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Human capital Pay Experience Labour mobility Employee productivity Research and development An alternative and more parsimonious specification used in Møen (2004) is the one where a quadratic...