This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new … features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment … of firms engage in research activities and/or apply for patents; productivity, innovation and research are endogenously …

knowledge accumulation, may reduce the relative profitability of individual R&D activity vis-a-vis imitation and other … alternative forms of technological innovation which exploit more efficiently the presence of geographical spillovers. As a … innovation but not of individual R&D expenditures. These findings seem to confirm that innovation in industrial districts is …

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

at the firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two … different innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property … TFP growth, so that innovation height matters. Evidences show that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of …

now, there exists little evidence on whether patent citations are a good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses … Innovation Survey collected by the French Service des Statistiques Industrielles (SESSI), which contain firms' responses to … across geographical regions and across channels of knowledge diffusion. …