The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 92 No. 3 2010

Persistence of Innovation in Dutch Manufacturing: Is It Spurious?

Wladimir Raymond^1,2; Pierre Mohnen^3,4; Franz C. Palm^1,2; Sybrand Schim van der Loeff

¹ Maastricht University · ² Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics · ³ United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology · ⁴ Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations

Abstract

This paper studies the persistence of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an unbalanced panel of firm data from four waves of the Community Innovation Survey between 1994 and 2002. We estimate by maximum likelihood a dynamic type 2 tobit model accounting for individual effects and handling the initial conditions problem. We find true persistence in the probability of innovating in the high-tech category of industries and spurious persistence in the low-tech category. Furthermore, past innovation output intensity affects, albeit to a small extent, current innovation output intensity in the high-tech category, while no such evidence is found in the low-tech category.

DOI

10.1162/rest_a_00004

Volume

92

Issue

3

Pages

495-504

Language

en

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