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The Role of Demand in Fostering Product vs Process Innovation: A Model and an Empirical Test

While the extant innovation literature has provided extensive evidence of the so-called "demand-pull" effect, the possible diverse impact of demand evolution on product vs process innovation activities has not been yet investigated. This paper develops a formal model predicting a larger inducing impact of past sales in fostering product rather than process innovation. This prediction is then tested through a dynamic microeconometric model, controlling for R&D persistence, sample selection, observed and unobservable individual firm effects and time and sectoral peculiarities. Results are consistent with the model and suggest that an expansionary economic policy may benefit the diffusion of new products or even the emergence of entire new sectors.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10846

Classification
Wirtschaft
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Subject
demand-pull innovation
R&D
technological change
dynamic two tobit

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dawid, Herbert
Pellegrino, Gabriele
Vivarelli, Marco
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2017

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Dawid, Herbert
  • Pellegrino, Gabriele
  • Vivarelli, Marco
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2017

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