nanomaterials. We analyse European Patent Office data at the German district level (NUTS-3) on applications for nanomaterial patents …&D on the production of nanomaterial patents. Moreover, we find a positive interaction between them which hints at the …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. …

linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. The dynamic …&D investment. For the median productivity firm, investment in R&D raises firm value by 3.0 percent in a group of hightech … significantly affect R&D investment rates and productivity changes in the high-tech industries. …

manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …

capital are found to be mixed. While R&D has a strong positive impact on productivity, design & licences and patents show only … assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether …

level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for …