Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50449 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
KOF Working Papers No. 165
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich
Abstract: 
This paper investigates empirically the impact of diversity on the innovation performance of a firm. We created a measure for diversity that mirrors differences in the resource base of firms within an industry and tested its impact on innovation in addition to more traditional factors like technology-push, demand-pull, and firm-size, based on panel data stemming from three representative cross sectional surveys carried out in the years 1996, 1999, and 2002 respectively. In fact, diversity has a significant positive impact on the innovation intensity of firms and thus supports more theoretical findings in this area. We also find empirical evidence for the technology push and the demand pull hypotheses as well as the importance of competition for innovation.
Subjects: 
Diversity
Innovation Performance
Evolution of Industries
Jacobs Externalities
Panel data
JEL: 
O30
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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