associated with better firm profitability in low-tech industries. Participating in a national cluster may be associated with … firms better growth prospects. In the absence of functioning local markets for some productive inputs, being engaged in …

differences also exist between the scalability of different services. Since 2007, employment growth has been the fastest in the … location-dependent services. The real growth of value added and the increase of productivity, however, have been concentrated …

In this paper, we examine firm innovation and its link to firm growth. Instead of using the conventional … innovation activity all have effects on firm growth, but in different ways. R&D activity is important in that it leads to …

effect on their profitability. The so-called energy complex created in the Soviet period in Russia and in Northwest Russia … basing on trade and industrial statistics, company data and interviews. As a result the growth prospects and competitive …

This paper studies the effect of foreign-owned companies (FOCs) in the region on establishment survival and growth in …

productivity growth across 23 EU countries and 94 manufacturing sectors in 1995-2005. The highest MIIT index values are found in … been associated with slower productivity growth. The results indicate that a trade-flow expansion characterised by intra …-industry trade (high MIIT) is associated with faster productivity growth also after we control for the size in trade flow changes …

growth, so that environmental policies can potentially lead to the introduction of less-polluting energy technologies. The …