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 …

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia's manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … of FDI entry on local incumbents' TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does …

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’s manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does …

Does FDI affect innovation, productivity growth, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … spillovers on process innovation. These effects do not depend on the local firms’ distance to the productivity frontier. The … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’s manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI …

There is growing interest in modeling the relationship between innovation and productivity in developing and transition … whether there is a significant relationship between technological innovation and productivity in the manufacturing sector of … Estonia. We use firm-level data for the analysis from two waves of Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3 and CIS4) from 1998 …

ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …

manufacturing sectors. To date, companies increasingly rely on outside innovation for new products and processes and have become … more active in licensing and selling results of their innovation to third parties. At the same time, they may rely on the …

innovation by using a sample of 108 Tunisian service firms. Specifically, we are interested in the domestic outsourcing of … innovation. This suggests that outsourcing allows Tunisian service firms to create value, increase flexibility and improve the …

supposed to be drivers for innovation performance. Using representative firm-level data of 4,121 German firms, this paper … analyzes how the adoption of Industry 4.0 impacts innovation performance. The analysis is based on bivariate regression models … innovations and has a positive impact on the intensity of product innovation in the service sector compared to manufacturing firms …