diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others' R&D labs to one's own does not seem to … productivity and profitability. This is interpreted as evidence that these workers transmit knowledge that can be readily copied …

examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food processing, textiles, and garments and … leather products. In particular, it seeks to investigate the importance of various sources of knowledge in explaining … productivity in the different industries. The knowledge sources driving productivity performance are very different across sectors …

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and … innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of …, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics such as age, size, and existing leverage …

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …

In developing countries, innovation is to a large extent a matter of adoption of advanced technologies but also of …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …

the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …

between innovation effort (R&D) or innovation output (the share of innovative sales) and the firm's duration of survival. We … seems to be an inverted-U relationship between R&D or innovation output and long-term survival, suggesting that too much R …&D or product innovation can cause firms to die, perhaps because of excessive risk. Survival has a cyclical behaviour, and …