outline the potential for digital technologies and business innovation to raise productivity and increase employment. We … force, which doubled in the G20 countries as a result of brisk population growth, and rising productivity. Over the next … future growth will be on productivity, whose growth in developed economies has been declining over the past decade. For the …

productivity costs. This shift will have varied implications for businesses, contingent upon their scale, access to financial … resources, and capacity for innovation. The formulation of transition policies holds the potential to foster green innovation … without displacing other initiatives, yet stringent climate regulations might impede the productivity ascent of …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been …

We explore the relation between a country's patents and its economic and productivity growth. Consistent with patents …. These results support a growing innovation literature, which uses various patent variables as proxies for firm …-level innovation, and contends that private firms are more innovative …

Productivity growth is the main driver of living standards. But productivity has slowed down over the past decade … firms. Finally, it explores policy reforms that can help revive the diffusion machine and strengthen productivity growth …

This paper deals with the role of ICTs in the recent productivity slowdown, and with their possible future impact on … productivity in developed countries: the United States (US), the Euro Area (EA), the United Kingdom (UK) and Japan. Few papers … analyze the recent slowdown of the ICT contribution to productivity growth, and these papers, which concern only the US …