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 … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a …Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … ICT investment for firm performance in the manufacturing and service industries. Explicitly, I use an extended version of …

the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a …Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … ICT investment for firm performance in the manufacturing and service industries. Explicitly, I use an extended version of …

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 … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …

activities—R&D, innovative output, and productivity—hold for knowledge-intensive services. With especially high start-up rates … productivity with highly skilled employees being similarly important compared to R&D for creating innovation output in microfirms …

productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …

productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …

) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …. Moreover, dividing IT-investment by the type of IT clarifies that the kind of IT a firm uses is more important for productivity … sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …