We analyse the determinants of ICT investment and the impact of information technology on productivity and efficiency … firms on a series of intermediate variables and on productivity. Among intermediate variables we consider the demand for … skilled workers, the introduction of new products and processes and the rate of capacity utilisation. Among productivity …

show that technological investments have the greatest positive impact on the growth of labour productivity and on a decline … productivity growth in high-technology enterprises, but at the same time, the technological investments have an impact on the …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …