This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … individual heterogeneity in explaining the persistence of innovation. … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …

This paper analyses the persistency in innovation behaviour of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation … Transition Probability Matrix, we found evidence of (unconditional) state dependence in all types of innovation, with product …

This paper investigates the R&D persistence of R&D active firms in different markets with different intensities of … competition, based on firm-level panel data for the period 1996-2008. In a dynamic setting of the empirical model it turns out … that persistence is strongly related to market competition (measured by the number of principal competitors). Persistence …

Arrangements to cooperate on innovation facilitate access to external sources of knowledge. Using panel data derived … from five waves of Community Innovation Survey in the Czech Republic, we examine whether firms engage in these arrangements … provide strong support to the thesis of persistence, particularly of linkages with the university sector and suppliers. The …

This study focuses on the persistence of innovation in a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1990 …–2008. In particular, we analyse whether persistence in firms’ innovation activities over time is the result of previous … innovation (output) are highly persistent at the firm level. After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and initial …

This paper studies persistence properties of total factor productivity (TFP) from Bayesian perspective. Emphasizing … probability of having a unit root is very high for majority of countries. The evidence of high-persistence has implications for …

A growing body empirical literature deals with persistence in innovation. However, there is neither a survey of the … development and status of the field nor a clear statement of a theory of persistence which includes a formal model of the dynamics … of firm persistence. This paper fills these gaps by first providing a survey of previous studies of persistence, then …

the invariant character of regional development and innovation phenomena, such as long-term population growth, export … dynamics and persistence in new firm formation across regions in Sweden. The examples are put in perspective by studying the …

Recent research has related the firm decision to export with firm innovation activities and productivity. The aim of … productivity and innovation, may operate. For this purpose we use Spanish manufacturing firm data for the period 1990 – 2000, drawn …