The Philippines is often referred to as a country from which export of services rather than manufactured goods is the … industry sector since the mid-1980s. Three major opportunities for leveraging service sector growth stands out. One is … other modern services in urban areas. Second is expanding tourism to foster economic development across social groups and …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …. We examine the linkage between the crisis and innovativeness from the perspective of technical efficiency by means of the … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

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 …

relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … analysis. Third, stochastic frontier production function and factor productivity analysis are used to estimate the efficiency … and factor productivity growth at the firm level. Fourth, the causal relationships between the five variables of interest …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … productivity, to a ‘Marxian’ zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given … creativity is more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from …

The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but … export of services is less than that of the People’s Republic of China, and exports are competitive in only a few services … and are concentrated in a few markets. Most of the poor in India do not have access to basic services such as healthcare …

Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … important than R&D for innovation, but more important for productivity. These results support the proposition that ICT is an …

services. They are fundamental as holders and creators of innovation, both technological and organisational. Nevertheless …Knowledge intensive services (KIS) have a key role in the creation and commercialisation of new products, processes and …, little is known about the factors that explain why some firms use more than other these services (technological advice …

While the distinction between manufacturing and services becomes increasingly blurred to some observers, we find, using … result suggests a clear dichotomy between manufacturing and services in terms of how they react to trade and how they turn … towards the foreign market vs. the domestic market to find stimuli for innovation …