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Evidence on the Impact of Education on Innovation and Productivity

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  • Junge, Martin
  • Severgnini, Battista

    (Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School)

  • Sørensen, Anders

    (Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School)

Abstract

This paper investigates the importance of the educational mix of employees at the rm level for the probability of rms being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three di erent types of education for employees with at least 16 years of schooling: technical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Furthermore, we examine the in uence of these di erent innovation activities on rm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish rms, we nd that di erent types of innovations are related to distinct educational types. Moreover, we nd that rms that adopt product and marketing innovation are more productive than rms that adopt product innovation but not marketing innovation and rms that adopt marketing innovation but not product innovation. In addition, rms that adopt organisational and process innovation demonstrate greated productivity levels than forms that adopt organisational innovation but not process innovation that again demonstrate greater productivity than rms that do not adopt process innovation but not organisational innovation. Finally, we establish that product and marketing innovation as well as organisational and process innovation are complementary inputs using formal tests for supermodularity. Complementarity can be rejected for all other pairs of innovation types.

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  • Junge, Martin & Severgnini, Battista & Sørensen, Anders, 2012. "Evidence on the Impact of Education on Innovation and Productivity," Working Papers 02-2012, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:cbsnow:2012_002
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    1. Gökçe Tekin Turhan & Pınar Tokal & Gamze Sart, 2023. "The Role of Financial Sector Development and Educational Attainment in the Achievement of Economic Sustainability: Evidence from BRICS Economies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-18, March.
    2. Marcin Gryczka, 2021. "The Impact of Educational Factor on Innovation and Competitiveness of Middle-Income Countries," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(Special 1), pages 171-186.
    3. Natalia Davidson & Oleg Mariev & Andrey Pushkarev, 2018. "The Impact of Externalities on the Innovation Activity of Russian Firms," Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), National Research University Higher School of Economics, vol. 12(3), pages 62-72.

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    Keywords

    educational composition; human capital; innovation; productivity; complementarity;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

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