The importance of research and development (R&D) for innovation is evaluated in light of the latest French data from … the third Community Innovation Survey, which provides eight indicators of innovation output.These indicators include …&D is positively correlated with all eight indicators of innovation output and is more correlated than size to innovation …

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms productivity with the … stemming from process 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 …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … stemming from process 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 …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across four European countries, France, Germany, Spain …, and the UK, using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between Ramp;D expenditure, innovation output, and …

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 …