national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …

, productivity and innovation. A direct growth contribution stems from the business-services sector’s own remarkably fast growth …

ambitious Lisbon goals with respect to employment, productivity and innovation. …