relationship between innovation and productivity in Finland, Norway and Sweden at the firm level. Although these countries enjoy a … high degree of political, social and cultural similarities, they differ largely from one another in their productivity … productivity growth. Results reveal major discrepancies between the estimated firm-level results and the aggregated figures …

As a factor influencing productivity, a country's own research and development to generate new technology is more … study, international trade contributes 20 percent of the total effect on productivity from foreign research and development … spillovers from international R&D. First, the productivity effects of foreign R&D vary substantially, depending on which country …

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 mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as … two largest companies). Another factor that is significant in most cases is expected sales. However, productivity of the R … to R&D productivity in common with Japan. This may be interpreted as these industries’ are taking a ‘longer term view’ on …