This chapter aims to provide a review of the literature on innovation in services and to focus on the analytical … and integration. The assimilation perspective analyses innovation in services just as innovation in manufacturing … services specificities and aims to capture innovation activity where the traditional (technologist or assimilation) gaze …

This paper is devoted to the analysis of evolution of innovation concepts, aspect and types. First emergence and … evolution of different aspects and concepts of innovation are analysed, then the development of innovation concepts from a … historical perspective and finally an overview given of types of innovation classifications developed in the literature …

. The study reinforces and refines the body of knowledge relating the service innovation and customer choices for hotel …

This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios for manufacturing and services sectors in the Eurozone, the …

terms of their retail and services offer. The analysis was based on data on business entities of selected branches located …

of those 33 available tourist services and amenities in the district. …

We consider the determinants of exports of services, distinguishing between modern and traditional services. We … whether the determinants of export growth rates and surges differ between merchandise, traditional services and modern … services and whether developing countries are different. Our findings confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for …

India’s success story in services is well documented at the national level, but similar literature does not exist for … India’s states. In this paper, we bridge this gap in research by looking at India’s services growth at the sub … services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …

trading with the domestic market, for services and manufacturing firms located in the Basque Country region of Spain. I find … services are still much larger than for manufactures. Based on standard elasticities of substitution used in the literature …, our results suggest that the tariff equivalent of international trade costs is between 50% and 60% larger for services …

This paper takes stock of the forces that lie behind the recent rise of preferential agreements in services trade. Its … initial focus is with a number of distinguishing features of services trade that sets it apart from trade in goods and shapes … trade liberalization and rule-making approaches in the services field. The paper then documents the nature, modal and …