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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity - is There a Common Story Across Countries?

Janz, Norbert; Lööf, Hans; Peters, Bettina - 2015

Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been … found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …

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Investment and Performance of Firms: Correlation or Causality?

Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical analysis of the two-way causal relationship between some important investment and performance indicators at the firm level, in particular controlling for differences in these relationships between two cohorts of small and middle-sized firms and...

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Sources of Finance, R&D Investment and Productivity: Correlation or Causality?

Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

In general there is agreement about the positive impacts of R&D on performance of firms measured as productivity, profitability and growth. However, the opposite relationship is less obvious and very little attention has been paid on examining the feedback from performance on investment. This...

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