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 …

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

) 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 …

The paper examines the size and productivity of total intangible capital relative to total tangible capital for a large …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first …-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both …

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors' productivity over the life cycle, inventors' research teams … better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients …

a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and … innovation. First, intermediation allows us to finance more transactions with fewer assets. Second, it ameliorates certain …, suggesting that technology transfer is a significant source of innovation and showing how it is affected by credit considerations …

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