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 …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …

The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital … technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at … firm level, showing that the adoption of digital technologies could lead to an increase in firms' productivity in the …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been …

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European … effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. By looking at country and sector level … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …

The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over …. Traditionally, productivity has been introduced as explaining factor of tertiarization processes in advanced economies, while it has … been simultaneously assessed that services display lower productivity levels and growth rates than other economic …

. redefinition of industrial, regional and innovation policy to characterise and stimulate the economies along a new growth path. It … the history and the way forward of European industrial policy. As regional and innovation policy are fully intertwined … the role of clusters for the new growth path and the contribution of green innovation, especially in the energy sector, to …

This paper assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross …-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that … productivity gains at the firm level. Effects are relatively stronger in manufacturing and routine-intensive activities. They also …