Responding to research questioning the significance of external factors such as industry and country in explaining the patterns of innovation-related activities, we examine the effects of factors both internal and external to the firm. Analyzing CIS data, we find that external factors are more...

It has become common to measure the quality of exports using their unit export value (UEV). Applications of this method include studies of intra-industry trade (IIT) and analyses of industrial ‘competitiveness.’ This literature seems to assume that export quality and export price (the most...

Industry and firm-level research into both innovation and productivity has long been limited to manufacturing. In this article we aim to contribute to the stream of literature that seeks to extend the scope of such investigations to the services sector. To this end we analyse the innovation...