Research and development is seen as a key contributor to growth because it generates knowledge, leading to new or … improved products through product innovation, and makes firms more efficient at producing goods through process innovation … relationship between productivity growth, innovation and digital technology adoption plays out is particularly important for the …

highly-developed innovation profiles. Analysis of the prerequisites for knowledge-based growth indicates that transition … eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, in order to identify which countries have established a knowledge-based growth … by the working paper measure up according to traditional innovation input and output indicators. But the major part of …

and in knowledge-intensive service industries make a larger direct contribution to employment than start-ups affiliated … with other industries. We also find a relatively strong overall effect of new business formation in knowledge …

This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …

This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …