This paper empirically examines the relationship between innovation, R&D (Research and Development), and productivity … structural model (CDM model) that describes the link between innovation output, R&D and productivity for the Thai case. Various … size, foreign ownership, exporting and product innovation are important drivers of productivity enhancement in Thai …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between innovation, R&D (Research and Development), and productivity … structural model (CDM model) that describes the link between innovation output, R&D and productivity for the Thai case. Various … size, foreign ownership, exporting and product innovation are important drivers of productivity enhancement in Thai …

This paper aims to examine how the diversity of global engagement is related to firms' participation in innovation … activities, i.e., foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Incidences of innovation for ten innovation activities are … computed. The incidence of innovation was used to examine the extent to which different global engagement groups participate in …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

Rwandese manufacturing firms; (ii) to assess effects of innovation decision on innovation performance of Rwandese manufacturing … firms; and (iii) to evaluate impacts of innovation performance on financial performance of Rwandese manufacturing firms. To … study resulted in three main outcomes: (i) product innovation is linked directly to the process innovation, meaning that …

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 investigates whether technological innovation and exports affect the size and productivity of manufacturing … size and productivity, while causality exercises show that innovation and exports imply higher productivity and higher firm … particularly important for the issue under examination. Regression analyses show a positive relation among innovation, exports, and …

analyse between exporting, innovation activities and productivity. A firm's decision to start exporting into new destinations …While there is strong evidence that becoming an exporter increases firm productivity, the underlying mechanisms that … exporting and investment in technology as an potential driver of export-related productivity gains. We employ firm-level data on …

A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production … offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We employ propensity score matching to compare R&D and innovation activities of …