organisational changes and knowledge spillovers. Most recently (in 2006), before the current world crisis, hourly labour productivity …

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 R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …

We present evidence of a causal impact of research and development (R&D) tax incentives on innovation. We exploit a …