the impact of various forms of innovation, in isolation, on firms’ productivity. They do not consider whether these forms …

for improved productivity performance in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE) at the macro and industry level …

This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although … investment in ICT capital has strongly increased, total factor productivity (TFP) growth has made the largest contribution to …

Centre (IDRC) and the Division of Production, Productivity and Management, ECLAC-UN, which aims at understanding the dynamics …

The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly … primary studies, we report that the average effect of R&D capital on productivity and the average rate of return on R …-analysis studies. We also report that a range of moderating factors have significant effects on the variation among productivity and …

productivity levels using new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for the … practices to levels of productivity using regression analysis. The four innovation modes have a statistically signifcant … positive relation with the level of productivity, other things constant. The paper demonstrates the possibility of taking into …

This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the … distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R …&D investments. We analyse the productivity effect of a plant’s own R&D as well as the productivity impact of the plant’s parent firm …

, 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 …

United States showed a behavior that was influenced by new technologies, whereas in Spain the contribution of productivity to …

when compared to global peers on pharmaceutical value-added, productivity, research and development and trade performance … productivity and R&D intensity. A host of competitive strategies, like greenfield direct investment, overseas acquisitions …