This paper analyses the influence of in-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition on the total factor productivity …

In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms …, help us confirm that these inter-industry productivity improvements can also be generated form a quasi-trade liberalization … event. Upstream linkages are the dominant source of these productivity benefits and are reaped mainly from medium-low tech …

This paper examines the relationship between investment in innovation and productivity across firms in Ireland. We … relationships between investment in innovation, innovation outputs and productivity. Our results indicate that innovation is … positively linked to productivity. This result holds for all types of innovation and for both R&D and non-R&D expenditures. The …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a … can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm's productivity … target of R&D investment, suggests that firms in hightech sectors are still far ahead in terms of the impact on productivity …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …