labour productivity is, on average, 13 percent higher among firms with persistent R&D commitment and 9 percent higher among … persistent R&D efforts are rewarded with a productivity growth rate that on average is about 2 percent higher than for other …

line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much. …

size, productivity, and human capital intensity) and unobserved time-invariant firm characteristics are controlled for …-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any …

this exporter productivity premium is due to extra costs of exporting that can be covered only by more productive firms … fixed-effects estimator, no such exporter productivity premium is found for firms from manufacturing and services industries … systematically investigate the role of outliers and unobserved firm heterogeneity for estimates of the exporter productivity premium …

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 … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour … choose and afford to have a complex innovation strategy are better off in terms of their future productivity in compare with …. Moreover, not all types of complex innovation strategies affect the future productivity significantly; rather, there are only …

performance for 55 to 78 countries, using three measures of economic performance – economic output (GDP per capita), productivity … (total factor productivity) and innovative performance (patents). The results confirm the hypothesis, indicating that our …

firms in terms of survival, productivity and growth? Using a panel of about 2,000 ex-employee starts ups, their parent …