Services dominate economic activity, but remain under-researched by analysts of innovation and technological change …. The early 'one size fits all' theories of innovation in services have in recent years given way to an appreciation that … services are diverse, not least in their innovation activities. This paper draws on recent empirical evidence from large …

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 …

innovation in industry across Europe. The results presented in the empirical section of this paper are based on a unique database … (SIEPI) containing data drawn by the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS2) for 10 countries, 22 manufacturing sectors and … and explore in detail the differences in innovation processes both within and across European countries and manufacturing …

Culture is deemed to be a crucial basis for innovation in various respects. The aim of this paper is to explore the … innovation measured by the number of patent applications using the sample of European countries at the regional level. As a novel …