increased market size and the competition. Innovation is a prerequisite for a successful transformation process and this paper … experienced a decline in employment and a positive development in productivity while maintaining a significant contribution to … innovate; innovation is a prerequisite for firm survival in the four industries. -- transformation ; lifestyle production …

that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting …