international production and innovation networks, and enterprises which used information and communication technologies (ICT) more …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

- international trade in intermediate inputs - for multi-factor productivity growth using a range of cross-country industry-level data … countries is particularly productivity enhancing. We also find that GVC integration spurs greater domestic innovation activity. …

innovation activities during periods of recession. We empirically analyse what general patterns can be distinguished in this …: some companies have recently reduced their innovation activities significantly, while others maintained them and a third … deceleration of R&D and innovation activities induced by the crisis, but the trend figures remain positive. Driven by the companies …