This paper examines the relationship between investment in innovation and productivity across firms in Ireland. We … relationships between investment in innovation, innovation outputs and productivity. Our results indicate that innovation is … positively linked to productivity. This result holds for all types of innovation and for both R&D and non-R&D expenditures. The …

elements of the Schumpeterian "engine of progress": the ability of industries' R&D efforts to turn out successful innovations …; the ability of innovations to lead to high entrepreneurial profits; the commitment of industries to invest profits in … demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

The study aims at providing new evidence with respect to the still unresolved question, whether the innovation … identifies a set of innovation strategies (cluster analysis), whose adequacy he evaluates using the "economics of innovation" as … reference. Secondly, the author investigates the dynamics of innovation strategies to get some insights into structural changes …

This paper examines determinants of firms' innovations with environmental benefits. Using micro-data from Ireland, we … identify and quantify the impact of environmental regulations, innovation-inputs, firm-specific characteristics, spillovers … from other green innovators, public funding and innovation co-operations on the propensity of firms to introduce …

firms and the economic performance of industrial countries. Testing this hypothesis, this paper contrasts innovation and …. Moreover, the likely consequences of promoting R&D differ substantially between industries. -- Sectoral innovation systems …