This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new … features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment … of firms engage in research activities and/or apply for patents; productivity, innovation and research are endogenously …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …

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 …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide an empirical analysis of whether differing forms of innovation act … this paper is empirical in nature. Data is obtained for approximately 582 firms from the Irish Community Innovation Survey … 2004-06. Four forms of innovation activity are identified; new to firm product, new to market product, process and …

that well-designed environmental policies can provide a “free lunch” – encouraging innovation, bringing about gains in …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between innovation, R&D (Research and Development), and productivity … structural model (CDM model) that describes the link between innovation output, R&D and productivity for the Thai case. Various … of process innovation and product innovation. Exporting plants, plants in the central region, and plants that are …

This paper raises the question of the relationship between innovation and productivity conditional to ICT use and R …&D activities during the innovation process. Concretely, we wonder whether R&D activities and ICT use considered as innovation … these innovation outputs conditional to ICT use and R&D lead to a higher level of labour productivity. In this adaptation of …

The idea in this paper is to provide an empirical verification of the relationship between innovation adoption and … productivity growth. After a brief revision of the literature about the concept and main determinants of innovation adoption … subsequently, we study the impact that innovation adoption may have on productivity growth through a regression analysis. The …

knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation …