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Overview

Alfred Kleinknecht is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their work primarily revolves around the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a significant focus on Economics and Econometrics. Throughout their career, Kleinknecht has contributed extensively to the study of firm innovation, labor market dynamics, and economic policy analysis.

The main topics covered in Kleinknecht's research include:

  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Economic Policies and Impacts
  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Economic Analysis and Policy

Kleinknecht's recent papers demonstrate a focus on labor markets, innovation, and productivity. These include:

  • When labour market rigidities are useful for innovation. Evidence from German IAB firm-level data (2020), Research Policy
  • Robots, skills and temporary jobs: evidence from six European countries (2022), Industry and Innovation
  • Flexible labor, innovation regimes and the erosion of the Japanese model: Evidence from the Basic Survey on Wage Structure (2024), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
  • When structural reforms of labor markets harm productivity. Evidence from the German IAB panel (2023), Industrial and Corporate Change
  • When Robots Do (Not) Enhance Job Quality: The Role of Innovation Regimes (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kleinknecht include:

  • Sergei Hoxha
  • Mirella Damiani
  • Fabrizio Pompei
  • Yuya Ikeda
  • Masatoshi Kato

Kleinknecht's work is regularly published in venues that focus on the intersection of labor economics, innovation, and policy, including:

  • Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken
  • Research Policy
  • Industry and Innovation
  • Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
  • Industrial and Corporate Change

Their research sheds light on the interactions between labor market structures and innovation dynamics across Europe and Asia, with a particular emphasis on how labor policies affect firm behavior and productivity. This body of work contributes to better understanding the role of innovation regimes and labor market conditions in shaping economic outcomes.

Best Publications

  • The non-trivial choice between innovation indicators

    AH Kleinknecht;van Cagm Kees Montfort;E Brouwer

  • Innovative output, and a firm's propensity to patent.: an exploration of CIS micro data

    Erik Brouwer;Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Innovation Patterns in Crisis and Prosperity: Schumpeter’s Long Cycle Reconsidered

    Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Success and Failure of Innovation: A Literature Review

    Gerben van der Panne;Cees van Beers;Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Why do firms cooperate on R&D? an empirical study☆

    Alfred Kleinknecht;Jeroen O.N. Reijnen

  • Measuring R & D in Small Firms: How Much are we Missing?

    Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Employment growth and innovation at the firm level

    Erik Brouwer;Alfred Kleinknecht;Jeroen O. N. Reijnen

  • Demand and innovation: Schmookler re-examined

    Alfred Kleinknecht;Bart Verspagen

  • Firm size, small business presence and sales of innovative products: a micro-econometric analysis

    Erik Brouwer;Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Flexible labor and innovation performance : Evidence from longitudinal firm-level data

    Haibo Zhou;Ronald Dekker;Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Flexible Labour, Firm Performance and the Dutch Job Creation Miracle

    Alfred Kleinknecht;Remco M. Oostendorp;Menno P. Pradhan;C.W.M. Naastepad

  • Innovation and Firm Performance

    Alfred Kleinknecht;Pierre Mohnen

  • Innovation and Firm Performance. Econometric Explorations of Survey Data

    Pierre Mohnen;A. Kleinknecht

  • New Concepts in Innovation Output Measurement

    Alfred Kleinknecht;Donald Bain

  • Firm size and innovation

    Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Determinants of Innovation: A Microeconometric Analysis of Three Alternative Innovation Output Indicators

    Erik Brouwer;Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Do Regions Matter for R&D?

    Alfred Kleinknecht;Tom P. Poot

  • Measuring the unmeasurable: a country's non-R&D expenditure on product and service innovation

    Erik Brouwer;Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Determinants of Innovation

    Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Is labour market flexibility harmful to innovation

    Alfred Kleinknecht

  • Is flexible labour good for innovation? : Evidence from firm-level data

    Alfred Kleinknecht;Flore N. van Schaik;Haibo Zhou

  • Innovative output and a firm's propensity to patent : An exploration of CIS microdata

    E. Brouwer;A.H. Kleinknecht;A.N. Link

Frequent Co-Authors

Menno Pradhan
Menno Pradhan Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pierre Mohnen
Pierre Mohnen Maastricht University
Bart Verspagen
Bart Verspagen Maastricht University
Geert Ridder
Geert Ridder University of Southern California

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