Innovation in Times of Crisis: The Uneven Effects of the Economic Downturn across Europe
Andrea Filippetti () and
Daniele Archibugi
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Abstract:
This article addresses the impact of the current economic downturn on innovation across Europe. Using micro and macro data we investigate to what extent some characteristics of a country affect the reaction of its firms in terms of innovation investment. It emerges that the effects of the economic downturn in terms of firms’ innovation investment are not the same across European countries. The competences and quality of the human resources, the specialization in the hi-technology sector together with the depth of the financial system seem to be the structural factors which are able to offset the effect of the economic downturn on innovation investments of firms across Europe. Finally, some considerations about policies during the crisis are discussed.
Keywords: innovation investment; business cycles; national innovation systems; European Innovation Policy; financial crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 O3 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04
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