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 …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine green productivity growth in Sweden’s heavily regulated pulp and paper …-Luenberger productivity index which accounts for air and water pollutants as undesirable outputs. Some of our key findings are: (1) regulation …

period 1992-2000. The period can be characterized as a transition when long-run productivity growth in the Swedish economy … this dramatic change, the time trend and general index models are applied to estimate total factor productivity (TFP …

technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … innovative productivity than nonacquiring firms do. Thus, this study provides evidence on complementarity between internal and … efficiency. Moreover, we find that firm size significantly contributes to innovative efficiency and productivity of external …

This paper analyses the role of spatial externalities in explaining the average labour productivity of Swedish … Jacobs externalities. In addition, the matching between the firm and the regional labour force is found to be productivity …

This paper presents the parametric estimation of the rates of technical change and total factor productivity (TFP …