. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is … adequate skills and awareness of digital benefits or dangers (online security, cyberbullying, addiction). Promoting innovation …

with a discussion of productivity and the digital transformation in Chapter 2. It examines the trend of declining … productivity growth worldwide and in particular the fact that the productivity gap between large corporations and SMEs is a common … phenomenon widely found in most countries. In addition, in order to cope with the weakening trend of productivity growth, this …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

towards digitization and innovation towards competitiveness which is facilitated by government initiatives. The review process …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. -- SMEs ; SME policy ; productivity ; Latin …