This paper investigates the tendencies of co-location between producer services and manufacturing across Swedish … producer services is a function of the location of manufacturing and vice versa. The rationale for the simultaneous approach … location manufacturing employment can be explained by its accessibility to producer services. However, accessibility to …

activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … effect is independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms …

-enhancing properties. The share of manufacturing in GDP has been declining slightly over time in South Africa, while that of services has …Manufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special growth-pulling or growth … economic growth, using input-output tables to investigate intersectoral linkages in the South African economy. Manufacturing is …

differences between firms with and without trade marks for services than for manufacturing. We also find bigger differences in … intensity of Community trade marking appears to raise market value for both manufacturing and services, but this relationship …This paper uses a novel data set of the trade mark activity of UK manufacturing and service sector firms to investigate …

While the distinction between manufacturing and services becomes increasingly blurred to some observers, we find, using … result suggests a clear dichotomy between manufacturing and services in terms of how they react to trade and how they turn … stimulating R&D. This is particularly clear for manufacturing and this importance of foreign sales has increased over time …

<em>Decreasing weight of manufacturing industry in Europe? Between terziarization and opening of the value chains …</em> - This paper aims at understanding the decreasing weight of the manufacturing industry in the main European countries. The … manufacturing firms’ attempt to increase their competitiveness on the international markets. In so doing they tend to focus more and …

firms can be classified as non-efficient in their production process. The production scale of many manufacturing firms is … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

firms can be classified as non-efficient in their production process. The production scale of many manufacturing firms is … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

This paper uses novel data on trade mark activity of UK manufacturing and service sector firms to investigate whether …