The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

Extending a recently developed multi-product model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …

, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign …This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …

UK. Results show that displacement effects induced by productivity growth in the production of old products are large …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

preferences. In order to generate global innovation, an international firm should look for the global common denominator of … export effective. We investigate data from the ZEW Innovation survey of 4,786 firms in the manufacturing and service … industries. These firms were asked about the sources of their innovation and their exporting activities. We find evidence that …