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The effect of gender diversity and education level on innovation

ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of gender diversity and education level of R&D employees on innovation. We use as source of information the Community Innovation Survey belonging to the general plan for statistics of the European Union (Eurostat). From a sample of 7,962 firms, most of them small firms, the results show that the diversity of gender and educational level of R&D employees individually have a positive influence on product innovation, although there is no significant effect of combined effect.

KEYWORDS
Innovation; gender diversity; educational level; R&D; product innovation

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