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 …

aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by …

-cost markets is negatively correlated with markups; (v) Higher quality production and innovation, especially if it results in IP …

-cost markets is negatively correlated with markups; (v) Higher quality production and innovation, especially if it results in IP …

provides any gains in terms of firm-level innovation. The causal effects of trade in innovative tasks (i.e. off-shoring R&D or … to successfully innovate as measured by disclosed innovation. Also, off-shoring innovative activities increases the share … multinational firms in this sample tend to gain from trade in innovative tasks when such trade is in product innovation, but not …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

offers a more comprehensive assessment of Italian competitiveness, focusing on the role of innovation and the evolution of … sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy's future …

technological advancements in specific areas. We also discuss the implications for innovation and industrial policy actions. …

innovation at a finely defined sectoral level for six major industrialised countries over the period 1981-1995. International … spillovers are always found to be effective in increasing innovative productivity. The paper then uses self-citations to …;s innovation to both national and international spillovers. The larger the gap of a country with the technological leaders, the …