' innovation behaviours can be analysed and exploited in order to assess the technological performance of the economy. Three … empirical applications using French data are derived from the previous argument. Our results show first that innovation is … highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … in US high-tech manufacturing sector. The Canadian high-sector is smaller than its US counterpart and experienced much …

for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …

, increased sales and profits, and product and process innovation than firms that do not follow this path. Their findings suggest …

; the effect of hours of work and the employment rate on labour productivity levels in European countries; productivity …

organization innovation and information and communications technologies on firm performance; the effect of adjustment costs on …

overview of the ICOP manufacturing database. They note that the novelty of the ICOP approach is the derivation and use of … productivity in manufacturing. But when the more appropriate output per hour measure of productivity is used, the United States is … no longer the manufacturing productivity leader, being surpassed by the Netherlands and Belgium. The much greater number …

productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …