products. Firms' weakly favour a process innovation if the degree of product differentiation (competition) is high (low). In … product innovation are found to be the critical assumptions in the sense of Milgrom and Roberts (1994). …

firm’s decision between a product and process innovation. When firms have to choose between the two types of innovation, it … is demonstrated that both firms undertake the product innovation when the competi-tion is intense. For intermediate … depending on the innovation cost structure. Again, the firms are willing to incur higher costs into product innovations, when …

a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …

2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence …. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to …

which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity … than its competitiors, and experiences high labour productivity growth. …