-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

In this paper, we analyze how the offshoring of services by Swedish firms is affected by corruption in target economies … services is affected by the presence of corruption in target economies. The results suggest that corruption is a deterrent for … service offshoring. Firms avoid corrupt countries, and corruption reduces the amount of offshored services. In addition, the …

growth premium from exporting is substantial for business services, 2% per year, compared to 0.5% for the retail and …

(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

cost implies that firms save money by smoothing innovation spending across the business cycle if they have available … so, we investigate possible differences in the innovation-cash flow link between high-tech firms and all exporters …, creation and exploitation innovation activities, persistent and non-persistent exporters. Applying a modified Euler model and …

innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have …

sense that they have only given a partial picture. One obvious example is that discus¬sions of the role of innovation and … ignored the high degree of innovation and entrepreneurship within many incumbent companies. The purpose of this paper is to … contribute to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy. …