technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … based on the technology group. High technology and low technology firms are estimated separately in order to reveal … technology firms which operate in areas such as chemicals, electricity, and machinery as compared to that of the low technology …

affiliation provides an advantage over unaffiliated (or private independent) firms with respect to technological progress, which … lies at the heart of wider economic growth and prosperity. Our results suggest that while business group affiliation did … provide an advantage over private independent firms at the start of the sample period (2000), this advantage was more than …

available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be …

for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold … measured by citations and text-based measures of novelty). A more regulated economy may have less innovation, but when firms do …Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase … their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ …

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 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

extensive to intensive growth, we enquire whether the business group organsational format will be as effective going forward. We … concentration. Our empirical work, drawing on a sample of more than 9000 Asian firms, finds that while BGs are more innovative than … non-affiliates, this is unsurprising given their access to additional resources. However, when we look at innovation at …