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Creative and science-oriented employees and firm-level innovation

Brunow, Stephan, Birkeneder, Antonia and Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés ORCID: 0000-0002-8041-0856 (2018) Creative and science-oriented employees and firm-level innovation. Cities, 78. pp. 27-38. ISSN 0264-2751

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Identification Number: 10.1016/j.cities.2018.02.002

Abstract

This paper examines the link between innovation and the endowments of creative and science-oriented STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – workers at the level of the firm and at the city-/regional-level in Germany. It also looks into whether the presence of these two groups of workers has greater benefits for larger cities than smaller locations, thus justifying policies to attract these workers in order to make German cities ‘smarter’. The empirical analysis is based on a probit estimation, covering 115,000 firm-level observations between 1998 and 2015. The results highlight that firms that employ creative and STEM workers are more innovative than those that do not. However, the positive connection of creative workers to innovation is limited to the boundaries of the firm, whereas that of STEM workers is as associated to the generation of considerable innovation spillovers. Hence, attracting STEM workers is more likely to end up making German cities smarter than focusing exclusively on creative workers.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cities
Additional Information: © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
Divisions: Geography & Environment
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
JEL classification: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R2 - Household Analysis > R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2018 10:17
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 13:14
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87588

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