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 …

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 …