of policy concern for the survival of SMEs in emerging economies like India as these firms accounts for the largest chunk … SMEs has become a very important policy parameter. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on Indian R …&D by analyzing the trends and patterns of R&D investment by Indian manufacturing SMEs during the period 1991−2008 and …

enterprises (SMEs) seemingly successful R&D is a function of innovation processes and R&D networks. There is a perceived lack of … understanding regarding the importance of SMEs and their need to continuously enhance their technological capabilities for the … impact on value creation in SMEs have been studied. One very important trend to enable new knowledge creation and transfer in …

’ productivity gains from R&D spillovers from the research cluster decline with (i) increasing geographic distance away from the …

In this paper we analyze the relationship between R&D spillovers and productivity. To this aim, we use data from 9th … results provide evidence of higher productivity in R&D intensive industries and this can be interpreted as the signal of the …

&D has a statistically significant positive impact on own-industry output per person, suggesting it increases productivity …

We develop a simple estimator for production functions in the presence of endogenous productivity change that allows us … to retrieve productivity and its relationship with R&D at the firm level. Our dynamic investment model can be viewed as a … generalization of the knowledge capital model (Griliches 1979) that has remained a cornerstone of the productivity literature for …

Many empirical studies have confirmed the positive impact of innovation on productivity at the firm level. The focus … on the other. To investigate the effect of different types of innovations on produc-tivity, we propose a model with two … a productivity equation. We find that ICT is an im-portant driver of innovation in both manufacturing and services …

, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …

Recent researches for developing countries suggest knowledge generating activates is no silver bullet for productivity … first stage, we examine the relative productivity performance of R&D vis-à-vis non- R&D. Subsequently, we construct two … productivity edge over non- R&D firms. Regression results based on the growth accounting framework suggest that R&D intensity has a …