, innovative property and economic competencies – has been rising significantly. This has implications for innovation and … productivity growth and requires new thinking on policy. The returns to investing in KBC differ significantly across countries and … structural reforms offer the most cost-effective approach to raising investment in KBC, there is a role for innovation policies …

This paper explores the growing importance of intangible assets as a potential source of innovation and productivity … gains, and the contribution of efficient resource allocation to this process. Realising the growth opportunities implied by …

these measures of innovation intensity and MFP growth. Innovation-specific policies such as R&D tax incentives, direct … – proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation … indicators and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is also examined with a particular focus on the role of public policies in …

This paper provides first empirical evidence of the joint effects that innovation strategies and human resource … management practices exert on firm growth. By exploiting unique information from a large sample of Italian manufacturing … both positively associated with a significant turnover, employment and labor productivity growth premium. However, their …

aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by …

This paper investigates the innovation impact of intangibles by considering the decision of firms to invest in a … these investments are directed to. Intangibles need to be managed strategically in order to have an innovation impact and …

development of brand new ideas with a high potential impact on the long term growth. …

productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition … enabling factors are examined in the context of a scenario, whereby MFP growth at the technological frontier is ½ percentage … significantly more from higher frontier growth than could be expected based on their trade openness alone. In turn, evidence on the …

of our time. SMEs that grow have a considerable positive impact on employment creation, innovation, productivity growth …SMEs are key to strengthening productivity, delivering more inclusive growth and adapting to the major transformations … and competitiveness. While the population of SMEs is very diverse, innovation and scale-up are at the reach of many SMEs …