technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation …, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …

between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … estimate the impact of the innovation output conditional on the choice of appropriability mechanisms on firms' productivity. We … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending (rather than R …

explores the reasons for this failure of innovation. I identify two factors as being particularly important in organizational …

technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …