answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …

We analyze the effect of new business formation on the productivity of incumbent manufacturing establishments. We … obtain robust empirical evidence of productivity improvements that are due to the emergence of new businesses in the same … new businesses on the input market and cross-industry effects are not related to incumbents' productivity changes. The …

firm's ability to improve its productivity growth and profitability. The case study reported here concerns the … in which the dependent variable is alternatively (labor) productivity growth and profitability. Our findings show that … only patents with the EPO, along with larger firm size, have a statistically significant relationship with productivity …

the issue is inevitable. The results so far are mixed, frequently a positive effect on productivity, but a negative one on … theoretical result that the positive productivity effect is more pronounced in firms with well-defined majorities is confirmed in … the productivity effect is significant, the profitability effect is negative, except for firms with a very high percentage …

Empirical research has shown tremendous productivity differences, even within narrowly defined industries. A great host … of studies is explainsing this productivity disparity by factors such as idiosyncratic technology shocks, input price … diversification across industry establishments is positively related to within-industry labor productivity dispersion. …

This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The … impact on labour productivity; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in terms of the sign, the …, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity gains; technological change embodied in gross investment is of …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …