analysis focuses on as¬sessing whether the productivity of the regional manufacturing industry of non-affiliated firms is … appear to benefit the most from local presence of MNFs. The MNFs have, on the other hand, no effect on non-MNF productivity …

how attributes of MNEs and non-MNEs differ, and how these differences affect the productivity and export intensity. It …

This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most … causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports …. Our results highlight the importance of import flows from R&D and knowledge intensive economies for productivity and are …

This paper investigates how a firm’s R&D strategy influences the firm performance as measured by productivity and … productivity firms (lowest quartile) indicating a non-linear response. Moreover, the analysis recognises the different roles of … quantile regressions on the economic model for analyzing the importance for a particular R&D strategy on firms’ productivity …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

In general there is agreement about the positive impacts of R&D on performance of firms measured as productivity …