innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

), 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 …

inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …

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 …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 …-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …

We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative …, trademarks and innovation surveys. We also establish connections between launches and previous innovative activity. We then link … IP, launches and productivity, controlling for media exposure and firm heterogeneity. Launch activity is associated with …

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …

the training on store- and individual- level productivity. The intervention was more effective in boosting leadership than … findings confirm the possibility of increasing productivity through training targeting critical soft-skills. …

, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity … by approximately 7%, while leaving team leaders' productivity unchanged, and was profitable for the firm. During the …