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 …

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 …

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 …

We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing … contribution of such expenditures to productivity growth was about the same in both countries. Hence, the rather large differences … on the observed rates of productivity growth between the two countries can not be accounted for by differences in either …

between firm productivity and R&D appears both strong and robust in the cross-sectional dimension of the data; it is less so …

productivity (TFP) at the industry level during the period extending from the early 1960's to the mid-1970's. The data base …-Penn-SRI manufacturing data file. A hypothesis suggested by previous research on the R&D-productivity relationship is that, due, perhaps, to … recent years. Our findings indicate, however, that the relationship between an industry's R&D-intensity and its productivity …

A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … investment activities, particularly investments in R&D or new technology, that both raise productivity and increase the payoff to … set of interactions between R&D, exporting, and productivity. The self- selection of high productivity plants is the …

manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to R&D capital are significant and plausible, both …

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