&D productivity and costs. Focusing on large R&D-performing firms in the chemical industry, an average-sized plant raises the firm’s R …&D productivity in the metropolitan area by about 2.5 times. The elasticity of R&D productivity with respect to the firm’s production … significant effect on R&D productivity in this sample. Other manufacturing industries exhibit similar results. My results cast …

This paper examines the relationship between investment in innovation and productivity across firms in Ireland. We … relationships between investment in innovation, innovation outputs and productivity. Our results indicate that innovation is … positively linked to productivity. This result holds for all types of innovation and for both R&D and non-R&D expenditures. The …