This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between Ramp;D expenditure, innovation output and …

knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey …In modern knowledge driven economies, firms are increasingly aware that individual and collective knowledge is a major …, the more are they likely to set up knowledge management (KM) policies, such as promoting a culture of information and …

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D-to-innovation and innovation-to-productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

This paper compares the contribution of R&D to innovation in terms of the various innovation output measures provided … by the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3) for French manufacturing firms and in terms of accounting for inter …-industry innovation differences …