Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differencesin productivity across and … survey from Sri Lanka totest this model and to examine whether and how owner characteristics matter for innovation.The survey … also allows analysis of the incidence of innovation in micro and small firms, whichhave traditionally been overlooked in …

scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of … their employer. We also findthat the contribution of mobile R&D workers to innovation depreciates fairly rapidly …