&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 … benefits from innovation than knowledge intensive manufacturing firms? Empirical results based on innovation survey data …

represented by the presence of Knowledge-Intensive Manufacturing Industries (KIMI). The empirical analysis demonstrates that a …

composition in importing firms in Swedish manufacturing. Inter-firm variation shows that an increase in high (low) quality imports …

manufacturing firms. The empirical findings support MAR and Porter externalities as well as general urbanization economies, but not …

Swedish manufacturing firms using data for the period 2001-2008. Advances in ICT, along with improved infrastructure and lower …

development, adoption and introduction of new export products among Swedish manufacturing firms. Our model formulation builds on …

firms can be classified as non-efficient in their production process. The production scale of many manufacturing firms is …

starting in large exporting manufacturing firms, after a deep economic crisis at the beginning of the 1990s, spilled over to … the rest of the economy, both manufacturing and services. …

shows that service firms do become exporters for the same reasons as manufacturing firms. Besides, they are a self …

This paper investigates the tendencies of co-location between producer services and manufacturing across Swedish … producer services is a function of the location of manufacturing and vice versa. The rationale for the simultaneous approach … comes from an assumption of a supplier-customer relation between the two categories of industries. Manufacturing firms …