, can be based on creation of an innovation-friendly environment. As our research has shown, it is important to consider …

particular between the 'old' and 'new' member states. The study demonstrates that productivity growth in services was … services, which, on the whole, were the main driving force behind the productivity growth in services. …Economic development has resulted in structural transformation towards economies based on services, which has raised …

to a sectoral reallocation of employment from manufacturing to services, leaving total employment unaffected. We …

services sectors shows that patent rights, the level of domestic sales, collaboration for innovation purposes, innovation … intensity (that is, the efficiency with which innovation funds are managed), availability of technology, knowledge about new … vital in addressing this problem. Innovation, a necessary condition for competitiveness, is a key channel through which the …

the range of services provided and the whole service sector. Outsourcing is used to adapt to business environment changes …. However, in the scholarly literature, outsourcing of services is analysed as a complementary part of the manufacturing process … WTO (World Trade Organisation) group of services but also the use of outsourcing in the provision of core and non …

, the requirements regarding the quality of provided services trigger various problems for managers. The originality and … value of this study consist of identifying logical connections between changes in the society, changes in the services, and … part of the management of services, became more important within the knowledge-based economy as compared to the traditional …

activities—R&D, innovative output, and productivity—hold for knowledge-intensive services. With especially high start-up rates … productivity with highly skilled employees being similarly important compared to R&D for creating innovation output in microfirms … and the majority of employees in microfirms, knowledge-intensive services (KIS) have a starkly different profile from …

industry managed to grow at the same pace as global industry production and was able to maintain its market share. Inter alia …, this success was due to an industry structure which focused on medium-tech and high-tech sectors. The total value added …. However, we can identify a remarkable shortage of investments in the German manufacturing industry. In the 2000-12 periodthe …