This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a considerable number of national firm-level studies analysing...

Produktivität wird allgemein als treibende Kraft für das Wirtschaftswachstum und als Indikator für den materiellen Wohlstand einer Gesellschaft angesehen. Jedoch haben viele Industrieländer in den letzten Jahrzehnten ein rückläufiges Produktivitätswachstum und eine Ausweitung der...

Innovation is regarded as a key driver of productivity and market growth and thus has a great potential for increasing wealth. Surveying innovation activities of firms is an important contribution to a better understanding of the process of innovation and how policy may intervene to maximise the...

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in...