Entorno tecnológico y composición cualitativa del tejido empresarial en la UE-15

  1. Ana Millán 1
  2. José María Millán 2
  3. Concepción Román 2
  1. 1 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ESP)
  2. 2 Universidad de Huelva (ESP)
Journal:
Cuadernos económicos de ICE

ISSN: 0210-2633

Year of publication: 2015

Issue Title: Contribuciones a la economía de la innovación: análisis de la I+D+i empresarial

Issue: 89

Pages: 209-228

Type: Article

DOI: 10.32796/CICE.2015.89.6101 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This work analyses the role of innovation and technological environment at the country level in the individual decision to be an employer (self-employed with employees) against the alternative of being an own-account worker (self-employed without employees). To this end, we estimate binary discrete choice models, using microdata drawn from the european Community Household Panel (ECHP). As measures of innovation, we use different aggregated indicators at the country level aimed at capturing both technological effort (R&D expenditures and employment share of high-tech and knowledge-intensive sectors) and results of scientifictechnical activity (number of patent applications to the European Patent Office –EPO– and to the United States Patent and Trademark Office –USPTO–). We find strong support for a positive relationship between these indicators of the technological environment and the relative weight of employers on total self-employment.

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