This paper examines the relationship between investment in innovation and productivity across firms in Ireland. We … relationships between investment in innovation, innovation outputs and productivity. Our results indicate that innovation is … positively linked to productivity. This result holds for all types of innovation and for both R&D and non-R&D expenditures. The …

This paper combines a literature identifying the sources of productivity growth with a literature exploring differences … aggregate labour productivity growth in the Irish manufacturing sector between 1998 and 2004. Using the Breunig and Wong (2007 …) decomposition technique, we uncover the contributions to aggregate labour productivity of continuing, entering and exiting firms …

We examine the links between innovation investment, innovation output and productivity in service enterprises. For this … purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Surveys 2006-2008 in Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom and … estimate an augmented structural model which links innovation inputs, innovation outputs and productivity. Our estimates …

This paper examines the impact of investment in knowledge-based capital on firm productivity. The analysis is based on … a dynamic econometric model estimated with micro-data from Ireland over the period 2006-2012. We use broad measures of … and above other factors, an increase in investment in knowledge-based capital of 10 per cent increases firm productivity …

Ireland is one of the most FDI-intensive economies in the OECD and is a significant export platform for both … services segments - software & IT and international financial services. It also updates earlier analyses of how Ireland …

. They also incorporate policy interventions aimed at influencing investment behaviour of manufacturing firms in Ireland. The … industrial building than for machinery and equipment. -- cost of capital ; manufacturing ; Ireland ; Celtic Tiger ; capital gains …

We examine the effect of changes in international competitiveness on labour productivity growth through three channels … indicate that a real exchange rate appreciation had a negative effect on labour productivity growth once a firm's export … had a positive effect on labour productivity. An increase in import competition due to a real exchange rate appreciation …