panel dataset of firms that are publicly traded in France, Germany, and Italy. Controlling for either permanent unobserved …&D in France and Germany is remarkably similar both to each other and to that in the US or the UK during the same period In …

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … 1995-2003. The model is estimated in steps, following the logic of firms' decisions and outcomes: in the first, Ramp …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … Italian manufacturing firms conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia, which cover the period 1995-2003. Using a slightly modified … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net …