higher productivity, profitability and wage level than other firms. The second question is focused on the location of firms …

countries imported from) and firm profitability. While both extensive margins are highly positively linked with firm … productivity, profits are not higher in firms that import more goods and from more countries. This demonstrates that productivity …

profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the …

the profitability of the exporting firms on the other hand. We find that profits tend to be larger in firms with less …

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 …

This paper assesses the contribution to productivity of firms’ internal innovation efforts and spatially …