. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of … empirical analysis based on Community Innovation survey (CIS 3) data confirm the hypothesis that the introduction of business …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the … UK. Results show that displacement effects induced by productivity growth in the production of old products are large …