The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest … city size effects, and these also vary according to the innovation type. …

We examine the links between innovation investment, innovation output and productivity in service enterprises. For this … estimate an augmented structural model which links innovation inputs, innovation outputs and productivity. Our estimates … suggest that innovation in service enterprises was linked to higher productivity. In all three countries analysed, amongst the …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three … countries analysed, among the innovation types that we consider, the strongest link between innovation and productivity was …

This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … higher productivity. Among the innovation types that we consider, the largest productivity returns were found for marketing … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and …

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

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 … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …