A review of the literature does not provide conclusive results about the effects caused by firm agglomeration on innovation. In order to shed light on this issue, this paper draws a distinction among three kinds of agglomeration economies and empirically tests their respective impact on business...

The Prosperity pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for an integrated approach based on boosting productivity through diversification, upgrading technology and innovation, and increasing employment and entrepreneurship. Thailand needs to address all these challenges to...

A review of the literature does not provide conclusive results about the effects caused by firm agglomeration on innovation. In order to shed light on this issue, this paper draws a distinction among three kinds of agglomeration economies and empirically tests their respective impact on business...

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to establish a formal relationship between innovation and performance using Colombian firm-level data. We find that, as predicted by the literature, the production of goods and services new to the firm and to the domestic market enhances firms´...

GDP per capita in Lithuania rose from one third to two thirds of the OECD average level between 1995 and 2014, despite internal and external crises. Productivity catch-up was critical to this process, although the level of labour productivity also remains around one-third below the OECD average....

Plant-level innovation is introduced into an heterogeneous plant setting so that productivity dynamics are endogenous. When policy distortions are positively correlated with plant productivity, I argue that accounting for plant innovation is important for understanding TFP differences across...

Abstract Die Absorptive Capacity gilt als ein Schlüsselfaktor für die Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen. Seit seiner Einführung im Jahr 1989 hat das Konstrukt zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen und findet heute in zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten verschiedener Forschungsgebiete...