The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally … known about the productivity performance of the sector and its drivers in South Africa. The recent availability of firm …-level tax administration data has made it possible to measure and analyse the productivity of manufacturing firms in South …

emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is …Improvements in productivity are necessary to effectively increase economic growth in the long term. The literature …

-level characteristics including productivity. …