Theoretical and empirical work on innovation and firm survival has produced varied and often conflicting findings. In … this paper, we draw on Schumpeterian models of competition and innovation and stochastic models of firm dynamics to … demonstrate that the conflicting findings may be due to linear specifications of the innovation-survival relationship. We …

This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity …

marketing or innovation. The second taxonomy discriminates between industries according to their employment of skilled labour …