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A Comparative Perspective on Innovation and Productivity in Manufacturing and Services
Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419309
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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination
Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298125
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On the relationship between innovation and performance: A sensitivity analysis
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - 2001
The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects. The sensitivity analysis is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281410
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The Icelandic Economy: a victim of the financial crisis or simply inefficient?
Oh, Dong-Hyun; Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Iceland, one of the smallest European economies, was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper uses a firm-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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546341
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On the Relationship between Innovation and Performance: A sensitivity Analysis
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001
The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects. The sensitivity analysis is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190850
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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination
Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097608
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Imports, Productivity and the Origin Markets -the role of knowledge-intensive economies
Lööf, Hans; Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most … causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports …. Our results highlight the importance of import flows from R&D and knowledge intensive economies for productivity and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644904
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Innovation and performance in manufacturing industries : a comparison of the Nordic countries
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001600085
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On the relationship between innovation and performance : a sensitivity analysis
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - 2001 - First Version May 2001, Revised October 2001, March 2002, December 2002
. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009502224
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The Link between Firm-Level Innovation and Aggregate Productivity Growth - a Cross-Country Examination
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077215