relationship between innovation and productivity in Finland, Norway and Sweden at the firm level. Although these countries enjoy a …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 …

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 …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting …