This paper provides new evidence on the link between finance and firm-level productivity focusing on the case of … find that financial constraints do not lower productivity for most sectors with the exception of R&D, where the dampening … effect of financial constraints on productivity is remarkably large. These results are robust to a variety of sensitivity …

employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

“innovators,” i.e., workers who are specialized in R&D&I, is very high. The average subsidy per employee is typically the highest … innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms …Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …

clear, blind spots in the current Finnish, mainly direct-subsidy-based innovation system. Although the scheme’s design does … the R&D expenditures, but the impact tends not to exceed the amount of the tax subsidy. Based on our results it is …

We summarize and compare previous studies considering the impact of R&D subsidies on firm-level labor productivity … on its client firms’ labor productivity. These studies go astray from the outset, however, as they neither measure what …