highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the …' 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 …

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …, increased sales and profits, and product and process innovation than firms that do not follow this path. Their findings suggest …

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …