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Critical Review

The title of the article is “The impact of technological and organizational innovations on employment in European firms”. The authors of this article are Rinaldo Evangelista and Antonio Vezzani. This article is attempts to emphasize on the impact that employment has on the degree of innovation that is present in an organization. The article tends to signify the total employment effects in the technology oriented product and process the innovations as well as it is said to be complementary non-technology oriented product innovation of the organization that has said to be bypassed into an analysis that is comparable. The article is said to employ fourth community oriented surbey that is said to determine and give comparison of the employment effects that are innovation induced in terms of service sectors and manufacturing sectors on the premise of 3 country groups. The three country groups are:

Eastern and Central European countries (transitional)

South based European union member states

It also entails a set of core European union member countries

The results that were said to be yielded are interesting since there are a lot of differences that have been analyzed based on country-groups, innovation based and sector based. It is particularly specified to sectors of manufacturing and service sectors based in European countries in the southern side as well as the transitional countries if the Eastern and Central Europe which tends to have an employment expansion based or premised on the response to the product novelties oriented introduction or process oriented innovations.

When it comes to the non-technological oriented organizational innovations there was a detrimental impact analyzed on employment specifically when it comes to the manufacturing oriented sector if the European and central European countries solely. Upon contrasting the employment trends that are present in the service sectors and manufacturing sectors in the European countries ...