Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … firm’s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … firm�s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive. … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

estimate a model relating firms' and industry's employment to innovation, that leads us to the conclusions that follow. Trend … increases in productivity reinforced by process innovation are an important source of reduction of employment requirements for a …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

presents some empirical evidence on the e®ects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on ¯rms' productivity with the … innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of product … innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation is …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …