Das ifo Institut führt sein 1979 in der deutschen Industrie eine Befragung über deren Innovationsaktivitäten durch, die als Entscheidungshilfe für Wirtschaft und Politik dienen soll. Als Testergebnisse der Jahre 1990-1997 werden dabei zunächst Innovationsschwerpunkte, -ziele und -hemmnisse...

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...

This paper focuses on investment in research and development as a factor of labour productivity and economic growth. Our analysis confirms the link between expenditure for research and development (expressed in % of GDP) and labour productivity (expressed in the number of hours worked) based on...

Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growth developments. By examining the sources of EU countries growth drivers on the sectoral level, the paper takes a new look on the influence of innovations. While standard neoclassical Non-ICT capital deepening turns...