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 …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a … can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm's productivity … target of R&D investment, suggests that firms in hightech sectors are still far ahead in terms of the impact on productivity …