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 …

the rate of innovation for companies with small patent and alliance portfolios. However, when the patent portfolio and … technologies have higher levels of innovation performance in subsequent years than companies that solely invest in incremental …

within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …

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

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 …

This paper studies the persistence of innovation and the dynamics of innovation output in Dutch manufacturing using … firm data from three waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS), pertaining to the periods 1994-1996, 1996-1998, and …