market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …

Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …

clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the …Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for …

productivity among manufacturing firms in the context of a least developed country, Tanzania. In particular it seeks to evaluate … the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing … appear to affect productivity. Some of the institutional variables on the contrary are highly significant and robust to …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of …

National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … institutional conditions influence total factor productivity of firms. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the national …, formal training of workers and access to technology through foreign ownership make more difference for productivity of firms …

analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after …

to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper … general, the term servitization or product-service transition is used to highlight the change, where the tangible offering of …