ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …

This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of … environmental treatment - are only significant through their interaction with innovation. The β-convergence in firms' TFP is …