This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most … causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports …. Our results highlight the importance of import flows from R&D and knowledge intensive economies for productivity and are …

This paper presents the parametric estimation of the rates of technical change and total factor productivity (TFP …

period 1992-2000. The period can be characterized as a transition when long-run productivity growth in the Swedish economy … this dramatic change, the time trend and general index models are applied to estimate total factor productivity (TFP …

This paper examines differences in R&D productivity across a group of geographically adjacent economies. By …

This paper examines variation in a productivity growth within a given location and between different locations …

This paper assesses the contribution to productivity of firms’ internal innovation efforts and spatially …

firms in terms of survival, productivity and growth? Using a panel of about 2,000 ex-employee starts ups, their parent …