Ester Martínez-Ros

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the positive association found between firm productivity and exports in the literature relates to the firm's innovation decisions, and they find strong evidence that product innovation affects productivity and induces small non-exporting firms to enter the export market.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide empirical evidence on technological activity in the Spanish service sector, in particular for the tourist accommodation in the Balearics, and they show that higher-categories hotels are more innovative than lower-category hotels; an aggregated measure of technological innovation presents a rate over the average for hotels that belong to a chain, and that for hotels under management contract.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between green innovation and employment from data taken from the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel (PITEC) for period 2007-2011, and found that the relationship was positive for firms that introduced green innovation voluntarily, as compared to firms that introduce green innovation merely to comply with regulations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the role of persistence in the decision of firms to implement product and process innovations and to develop those innovations and demonstrated that persistence is important in both innovation decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the determinants of innovation activity making a distinction between product and process innovations and apply a pseudo production function of innovations where among the explanatory variables, special attention is paid to firm and market characteristics.