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

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

-city areas. Standard empirical tests of the new trade models consistently find productivity-based ex ante self selection by … also goes along with positive productivity sorting. Ignoring this leads to upwardly biased estimates of the effect of … hypothesis. I find evidence that positive productivity self-selection is based on the combined effects of agglomeration and …

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 …

sector, trading firms in the service sector exhibit premia relative to non-traders with respect to size, labor productivity … find that the initiation of trade with foreign nations by trading firms is followed by improvements in the productivity of …

This paper analyzes the relationship between export status and productivity in a major service exporter, Spain, during … 2001-2007. I find that exporters in the services sector are 37% more productive than non-exporters. This productivity … that exporting increases productivity growth; however, this positive shock vanishes quickly. …

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 …

, the sector also contributed in an indirect way to economic growth by generating knowledge and productivity spill-overs for … characterised by a relatively weak productivity growth. Does this contribute to growth stagnation tendencies à la the so …-called “Baumol disease”? The paper argues that there is no reason to expect this as long as the productivity and growth spill …

, 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 …

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 …