The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …

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