This paper examines variation in a productivity growth within a given location and between different locations …. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … innovators, temporary innovators and non-innovators. The results are consistent regardless of whether innovation efforts are …

A longstanding research tradition assumes that endogenous technological development increases regional productivity. It … innovation inputs to processes that generate regional productivity and productivity gains. We also find that the most effective … endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity improvements. This process has been conceived as occurring in two …

(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 …

expenditure, (ii) innovation output, and (iii) firm productivity. The CDM model has become popular in many countries among …This paper applies a CDM-model framework to depict the successive links (correlations) between (i) innovation … scholars using data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). First, the study contrasts a general structural OECD version of …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance … that is subsequently exploited in affiliates abroad. Correspondingly, the innovation and productivity performance in …

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 …

This paper investigates how a firm’s R&D strategy influences the firm performance as measured by productivity and … productivity firms (lowest quartile) indicating a non-linear response. Moreover, the analysis recognises the different roles of … quantile regressions on the economic model for analyzing the importance for a particular R&D strategy on firms’ productivity …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been …