DOES PRODUCT INNOVATION AND FIRM GROWTH GO HAND IN HAND?

摘要: This chapter investigates the relationship between product innovation and firm performance. We apply a logistic regression to predict using number of explanatory variables which growth is principal interest. study at two different time periods comparable questionnaire surveys. These are combined with accounting statistics labor market data. find that firms experiencing high rates also more likely have been innovating. support for user-producer theorem Schumpeter may right in his hypotheses concerning size innovative activities.