prioritize enhancing innovation and imitation success over cost reduction to boost productivity growth. … examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity … firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …-induced innovation increase by the IG Farben successors, which then spilled over to the wider chemical industry. …

This paper investigates the effect of awarding a second investment grant to the same firm. We implement a Regression … and their scores to firms' performance. Overall, our results show a positive and significant impact of an investment grant … booster shot on firms' labour productivity. This effect is significantly larger than the effect of a single grant. A more …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …