This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment … line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much. …

This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities … (measured by the share of engineers and scientists in the workforce) and exports of German business services firms based on a …-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the …

-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 …

-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 serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …

expansion of the producer-service sector. This paper considers the location dynamics of two categories of firms: contact …-intensive producer-service suppliers and other firms, where the latter form the rest of the economy. Urban regions are decomposed into …

the rest of the economy, both manufacturing and services. …

service offshoring. Firms avoid corrupt countries, and corruption reduces the amount of offshored services. In addition, the …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 …

that half of the firms exporting goods are service firms that account for a substantial and increasing share of the total … little systematic evidence of this extension of goods exports among service firms or the benefits of exporting. This paper … shows that service firms do become exporters for the same reasons as manufacturing firms. Besides, they are a self …

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … spillovers from the local milieu. Measuring potential knowledge spillover by access to knowledge intensive services, the … innovators, temporary innovators and non-innovators. The results are consistent regardless of whether innovation efforts are …

and informal networks with input suppliers (especially suppliers of knowledge-intensive business services) and by …