Role of Human Resources in the Promotion of Technological Innovation in Emerging and Developing Countries

Kamilia Loukil ()
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Kamilia Loukil: Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax, Tunisia

Economic Alternatives, 2016, issue 3, 341-352

Abstract: This study examines the impact of human resources on technological innovation in emerging and developing countries. The overview of previous literature allows us to assume that human resources influence innovation via two channels: direct and indirect through their interaction with foreign knowledge sources. The sample used to test our hypotheses is a panel of 15 countries over the period 2000-2010. Results of the estimation of linear regression models show that human capital affects positively and directly innovation. However, the indirect effect is not significant. We conclude that the promotion of human resources is an effective direct tool of public innovation policy.

Keywords: innovation; R&D specific human capital; general human capital; technology importation; emerging and developing countries. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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