emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments with a general superiority in sales, exports, productivity …

entry of new firms influences productivity amongst incumbent firms, and the extent to which altered productivity can be … the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect …

This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most … knowledge intensive economies in the world, i.e. the G7 countries. Using Swedish firm-level data, we confirm an instantaneous … causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports …

analysis focuses on as¬sessing whether the productivity of the regional manufacturing industry of non-affiliated firms is … appear to benefit the most from local presence of MNFs. The MNFs have, on the other hand, no effect on non-MNF productivity …