various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation …, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …

technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …

process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … contribution of innovation in general to productivity growth is almost nil in Italy during this period … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net …

technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …

knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey … to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …

This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese …&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there has been a slowdown in the growth of Japanese research productivity in the 1990s …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …