statistics show that intangible investment has increased over time. The intensive and extensive margins of firms' investments are …

productivity in services, but only ICT affects productivity in manufacturing. The absence of investment in ICT is associated with …Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in …, is scarce. This paper analyzes the determinants of investment in ICT at the firm level and how investments in ICT …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

This paper focuses on investment in research and development as a factor of labour productivity and economic growth … productivity (expressed in the number of hours worked) based on selected data for EU Member States in the period 1995-2013. A … development (2.85% of EU GDP) maximising productivity (per hour of work) was determined based on the examined data. In accordance …