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 …

Using the findings of the 1999 Survey of Innovation in the Canadian manufacturing sector, we analyse the impediments, i … inhibit innovation, especially with regard to by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). First we try to establish the … relationship between the impediments to innovation and various firm characteristics. Then we assess whether these impediments …

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 …

Innovation is a complex process and has multiple dimensions. In assessing the linkage between innovation and … productivity, most of studies, due to data limitations, use only one single indicator to measure innovation. This paper argues that … different innovation activities to achieve their different business objectives. To better measure innovation, this paper …

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 …