&D spillovers on firms' innovation activity within an integrated dynamic model. In the second step, we then estimate the impact of … firms'innovations on firms?productivity growth. Using the firm level data on innovation activity combined with firms …&D subsidies, foreign ownership and intra-sector innovation spillovers do enhance firm's ability to innovate. Second, innovations …

- crodata, including innovation survey, industrial production survey and infirmation on trade, for Slovenian firms in 1996 … find consistent support both in the innovation survey as well as in the industrial production survey that exporting does …firm productivity and export decision are closely related to its innovation ac- tivity. Product innovation may play a …