In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs … manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 … could do more to promote entrepreneurship; to diversify and grow manufacturing export markets through focused trade …

variety, technological innovation is changing the nature of manufacturing and is turning services into the main sector for …This paper shows that African economies have generally not de-industrialized, that manufacturing growth is very … possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is …

unique longitudinal database covering 677 European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990-2008. The main …-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment … innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …

unique longitudinal database covering 677 European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990-2008. The main …-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment … innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …

administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that … migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

€“ innovation and trade – are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent … of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …. The COVID-19 pandemic may cause a permanent reduction in innovation and entrepreneurship and may even bring the 4th …

administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that … migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … fixed enterprise effects that controls for firm size, industry, and unobservable firm heterogeneity we see that the premia …-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …