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 …

altogether different phenomena such as on-line purchase of services, direct foreign investment and, sometimes, all imports. We … argue that clarity requires distinguishing among these various phenomena and define outsourcing explicitly as the services … trade at arm's length that does not require geographical proximity of the buyer and the seller—the so-called Mode 1 services …

services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread …

services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national …

. We conclude that the last decade trade in services has increased substantially, in particular in business services. This … is also the case for foreign direct investment (in services). The level of regulation within the EU has decreased …

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …