The paper focuses on the impact of business related R&D spending on input factor productivity (IFP) using international … patent applications as a technology diffusion channel. Considering the relationship between research and productivity … present and that the impact on labor productivity for Non-G7 countries is higher due to foreign rather than domestic R …

The paper examines implications of endogenous growth theory on the relationship between firm productivity, innovation … as well as productivity growth by combining infirmation on firm-level innovation (CIS) with accounting data for a large … results on the link between innovation activity and productivity growth are not robust to different econometric approaches …

productivity growth (the lowest four deciles) are likely to experience significant benefits from successful innovation, while …Using firm-level innovation data for a large sample of Slovenian firms in the period 1996-2002, the paper finds … surprising results that innovation is not benefitting all firms. We find that only manufacturing firms with below average …

between the presence of external investors and domestic firms’ productivity, no matter which regional breakdown is looked at … cases are obviously not strong enough to increase the domestic firms’ overall productivity. …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

knowledge transfer for regional productivity and innovative behaviour. …

innovativeness and firm productivity. On the whole, distinguishing various cooperation motives appears to be fruitful because it … weaker tendency to positive direct effects on productivity than cost-motivated cooperation. In this case, the distinction of …

for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. …

Innovation research has become an important topic in regional science analysis. Yet the modelling base of much … innovation research is still feeble. This paper aims to map out the research potential of recent approaches in quantitative … space-economy. The urban context of European innovation processes is used as an empirical background. The paper addresses …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …