National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … institutional conditions influence total factor productivity of firms. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the national …, formal training of workers and access to technology through foreign ownership make more difference for productivity of firms …

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for … size and age of the firms, productivity levels and productivity growth of firms over time are found to be key drivers of …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

productivity among manufacturing firms in the context of a least developed country, Tanzania. In particular it seeks to evaluate … the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing … appear to affect productivity. Some of the institutional variables on the contrary are highly significant and robust to …

, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …

After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …

examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food processing, textiles, and garments and … productivity in the different industries. The knowledge sources driving productivity performance are very different across sectors …. In food processing, firm productivity is most strongly affected by quality of management and foreign ownership linkages …

This paper analyses empirically the impacts of public R&D grants on private R&D investments and on the productivity … production function to assess the effectiveness of public R&D grants in the productivity growth of firms. We find that for each …

introducing the three types of innovations simultaneously and their synergy in affecting total factor productivity (TFP … productivity. This paper addresses the Porter Hypothesis within a structural approach that allows us to test what is known in the … literature as the "weak" and the "strong" version of the Porter hypothesis. Our "Green Innovation" model includes three types of …