The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal …-level explanation, or narrowly-based, which would point to industry-specific factors. In this article in the issue, Someshwar Rao and …

Colombian manufacturing exporting firms survey results are analyzed highlighting innovation, promotion, and learning …

The Philippines is often referred to as a country from which export of services rather than manufactured goods is the … industry sector since the mid-1980s. Three major opportunities for leveraging service sector growth stands out. One is … other modern services in urban areas. Second is expanding tourism to foster economic development across social groups and …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …. We examine the linkage between the crisis and innovativeness from the perspective of technical efficiency by means of the … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …. We examine the linkage between the crisis and innovativeness from the perspective of technical efficiency by means of the … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … analysis. Third, stochastic frontier production function and factor productivity analysis are used to estimate the efficiency … and factor productivity growth at the firm level. Fourth, the causal relationships between the five variables of interest …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … productivity, to a ‘Marxian’ zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given … creativity is more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from …