of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … Pavitt classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out …

service improvement, and employment and growth, but significant activity is still required in research, innovation, and …

Innovation is at the centre of the EU's growth strategy for the coming decade (EU2020). New technologies and their …

Understanding and estimating the impact of fiscal incentives on innovation are crucial elements for policy evaluation …. This is so because innovation- be it of the product or the process type- is able to move the production frontier and hence … that innovation is the final goal of public policy, most studies look at the relationship between R&D expenses and fiscal …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size …