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 …

relationship between innovation and productivity in Finland, Norway and Sweden at the firm level. Although these countries enjoy a … high degree of political, social and cultural similarities, they differ largely from one another in their productivity … productivity growth. Results reveal major discrepancies between the estimated firm-level results and the aggregated figures …

. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …

manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …

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 …

correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness … distinctly higher level of productivity across all types of location. In addition, the productivity level of firms with …