The relationship between innovation and employment in services: A review of the literature and an agenda for research

Faridah Djellal (1) , Faïz Gallouj (1)

1 CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019

This article addresses the difficult question of the relationship between innovation and employment. Its main objective is to re-examine the literature on innovation in services in the light of the employment issue. In particular, it attempts to assess to what extent and in what way this question is implicitly or explicitly addressed in the literature or deserves to be introduced into it. In pursuit of these objectives, the national and international literature is reviewed and a research agenda proposed. The following three topics are explored in succession: 1) technologist approaches and the employment question; 2) the question of employment in service-based approaches; 3) innovation by services and employment.

Mots clés: innovation; services; employment

Domaines: Economies et finances; Gestion et management

Faridah Djellal, Faïz Gallouj. The relationship between innovation and employment in services: A review of the literature and an agenda for research. Institute of Innovation Research (IoIR) / ASEAT Conference 2006 on “Innovation in Services”,, University of Manchester, Jun 2006, Manchester, United Kingdom. ⟨halshs-01113854⟩