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. …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …

the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employeremployee panel data. We argue that … establishment age-productivity profiles might differ for various reasons. For example, the importance of physical strength and … possibilities to compensate deficits in skills differ between sectors. We investigate differences in the age-productivity profiles …

?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …