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 …

that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting …

-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 …

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 …

outperformed by domestic multinationals in R&D and innovation engagement. Finally, the results on labor productivity are at … neutral with respect to labor productivity, and hence the issue of welfare gain and welfare drain is turned into a non-issue. …

generally outperformed by domestic multinationals in R&D and innovation engagement. Third, despite the fact that domestic … multinationals are considerably more involved in national innovation systems than other firms, they are not producing more innovation … neutral with respect to labour productivity, and hence that no evidence of welfare gain or welfare drain of foreign ownership …

performance from R&D and innovation. A comparison is made between the innovation and productivity of foreign owned enterprises, of …-owned companies in R&D-activities; the relative embeddedness in various national innovation systems and the relative output … Sweden, and based on the international harmonized Community Innovation Survey and uniform econometric approaches; the study …

This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most … causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports …. Our results highlight the importance of import flows from R&D and knowledge intensive economies for productivity and are …

economy, and the Swedish innovation system in particular. We analyze the company’s role as an employer in the private sector … company’s role in the Swedish knowledge economy and innovation system. The report analyses the company as a node for knowledge … flows in the Swedish economy and innovation system, and its role as an employer of highly educated and skilled workers in …