This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship …&D (product, process, internal, external in collaboration with universities, research centres and other firms) to Total Factor … Productivity (TFP). Thus, this paper answers the call for more research on the links between a firm's external R&D and its …

's research activities, the NBB conducted an ad hoc survey in 2005, covering pharmaceutical companies active in Belgium in the … field of research, production and distribution of drugs for human use. The analysis of the information obtained from that … survey makes up the main body of this working paper. The survey results do not only confirm the importance of the research …

business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour …