productivity costs. This shift will have varied implications for businesses, contingent upon their scale, access to financial … resources, and capacity for innovation. The formulation of transition policies holds the potential to foster green innovation … without displacing other initiatives, yet stringent climate regulations might impede the productivity ascent of …

investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … service firms in 2004-2009. Firms that introduced new services or marketing techniques experienced stronger growth. Process …

location-dependent services. The real growth of value added and the increase of productivity, however, have been concentrated … industries are the same. Some services have become independent of geographical locations, meaning that they can be exported, much … like physical products. Other services still require that they are produced and consumed in the same place. Significant …

the regular surveys of the Ifo Institute and presents, in detail, the Ifo Business Survey, the Ifo Innovation Survey, new … survey instruments in the services sector as well as the expert survey, the Ifo World Economic Survey. In addition it …

services industry. To this end we analyze the innovation strategies in several service sectors in Poland in 2008 and examine …Industry - and firm-level research into both innovations and productivity has long been limited to manufacturing. With … their relationship to productivity. Our results show that service firms differ considerably in their innovation strategies …

Using input-output analysis, this research project investigates the role of services in the Central European new EU … Austria. The role of services includes not only their position in the production structure per se but also their increasing … importance as an intermediate input for manufacturing and other services. As services were underdeveloped under the former system …

missed. Looking at the relationship between FDI growth on one hand and labour productivity, capital productivity and … capital is necessary to enter more remote investment targets. While financial services and some manufacturing industries have …

, especially in view of post-crisis growth challenges. The fi-nancial crisis 2008-2011 adversely affected manufacturing industry … more than services - particularly in terms of employment - and accelerated structural change in favour of the services …. The importance of industry in this group of countries remains strong. There has been no EU-wide uniform pattern of …