The role of skills as a major driver of corporate R&D

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Subsidies or loans? Evaluating the impact of R&D support programmes (2017, background): “Piva and Vivarelli (2009) provide evidence that supports this hypothesis for a panel of Italian firms.”
The internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises: the effect of family management, human capital and foreign ownership (2010, background): “Furthermore, the role of human capital is also significant regarding being competitive in terms of technological change and innovation (Piva and Vivarelli 2009).”
Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature (2011, background): “…the R&D expenditure technological variable with government expenditure in R&D, a variable which is not correlated with the error term (see also Piva and Vivarelli, 2009) 15 That is why in many empirical studies on DCs the assumed explanatory variable for innovation is the total innovative…”