This report summarises the findings of a study on the growth factors and growth prospects of the business services (BS … differentiation and the structure of competition.The study analyses the role of business services in inter-industry relations and in … national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …In most OECD countries, the business services industry has grown much faster than the market sector as a whole. The …

process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis … independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms regarding …

This report identifies the factors behind structural growth of the business services industry, applying growth …

The business services industry represents a large and fast-growing chunk of the Dutch economy, approaching the size of … business services industry and strengthen its contributions to the productivity of client industries. …