This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey … (CIS) to provide empirical evidences to test our argument concerning this interrelation between innovation, productivity …

This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify the effects of the two main sources of innovation … - internal R&D and external R&D acquisition - on productivity in the manufacturing and service industries. The sample comprises a … regression techniques. Our results suggest the different patterns attributable to the two sources of innovation as we move up …

jointly considering the effects of R&D and the impact of non-R&D innovation activities on the productivity levels of ?firms …Although non-R&D innovation activities account for a significant portion of innovation efforts carried out across very … traditional macro approach to estimating the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) does not handle them well. To counter …