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 …

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 …

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 …

how attributes of MNEs and non-MNEs differ, and how these differences affect the productivity and export intensity. It … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …

We investigate the effects on individuals’ productivity (captured through their wage income) of two social networks in … community most affects an individual’s productivity. We distinguish between individuals engaged in “creative” and “non creative … neighborhoods do matter for individuals’ productivity, although the effect is stronger for noncreatives. For both creatives and …

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 …

We assess the impact of the location of genuinely new ventures and spinoffs on these firms’ survival, productivity and …

This paper studies the influence of metropolitan externalities on productivity for different types of long run R … generates three distinct results. First, the productivity premium associated with persistent R&D is close to 8 percent in non … external milieu in metro areas. Third, no productivity premium is associated with occasional R&D effort regardless of the firm …