How Does Probability of Innovation Change with Firm Age? |
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Authors: | Huergo Elena Jaumandreu Jordi |
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Institution: | 1. Dpto. Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Campus de Somosaguas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28223, Madrid, Spain 2. Dpto. Economía. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, C/Madrid, 126, 28903, Getafe, Spain
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Abstract: | This paper looks at the probability of introducing innovations by manufacturing firms at different stages of their lives. Once differences related to activity and size are controlled for, we examine how the probability of innovation varies over entry, post-entry ages, and advanced ages of mature firms. We also measure the association between exit from the market and pre-exit innovation. Results show that the probability of innovating widely varies by activity, and that small size per se broadly reduces the probability of innovation, but also that entrant firms tend to present the highest probability of innovation while the oldest firms tend to show lower innovative probabilities. Some sets of firms with intermediate ages also present a high probability of innovation, and exiting firms are clearly associated to lower levels of introducing process innovations. |
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