innovation surveys for Estonia. We show that innovation is associated with increased productivity in the service sector. The … attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the innovation-productivity … of equations for innovation expenditures, innovation output, productivity and exports. We use data from the community …

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector … extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants … the case that even larger efforts need to be done to have better measures of innovation and productivity in the services …

It is widely recognized that innovation is the major driver of economic growth and competitiveness. But, some works … focus especially on analyzing the determinants and the effects of innovation while distinguishing product innovation to … process innovation. This distinction is often regarded as a fundamental assumption but the way in which firms make the …

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 …

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 …

This paper has a twofold aim. Firstly, it presents an overview of sources of data on service innovation. We distinguish … macro-data do not measure the service innovation process itself, but mainly represent inputs in or output originating from … the innovation process. Data at the micro-level are derived from specific innovation surveys of firms and enterprises …

succeed. The 1997 Survey of Innovation was the first to look at innovation in selected knowledge-based and information …-intensive services industries. This article presents estimates of innovation in the engineering services industry over the 1994 to 1996 … period. The survey findings show that large firms are very innovative, but that innovation rates are low among small firms …

Innovation is widely recognized as a key driver of economic growth and competitiveness. Previous works dealing with it … distinguishes between four kinds of innovation: product, process, radical and incremental. Indeed, despite their importance, the … innovation determinants and the innovation making-decision are less studied. Based on a sample of 108 Tunisian service firms, the …

of the law protecting trade secrets on innovation and productivity growth in the service sector. … role of patents and trade secrets on innovation. According to the analysis, first, service firms have fewer product … innovations than do manufacturing firms, but the productivity of innovative service firms is very high. Second, service firms have …