En la bibliografía empírica del crecimiento económico suele hacerse referencia a las llamadas “fuentes del crecimiento.” Ello implica la medición y conceptualización de la llamada productividad multifactorial, lo que no constituye una tarea sencilla. En este artículo se exponen algunos...

Both academics and practitioners emphasize the importance for product firms of implementing service-led growth strategies. The service transition concept is well established, namely a unidirectional repositioning along a product-service continuum — from basic, product-oriented services towards...

L’exosquelette est considéré comme une révolution technologique dans le monde de la biotique, c’est-à-dire dans le domaine de l’électronique dédiée à l’amélioration de la santé des êtres vivants. Si l’exosquelette est une véritable innovation technologique, il faut tout de...

Marketing strategists should create, maintain, and arrest the decay of causally ambiguous resource competences that lead to competitiveness and thus performance. However, competence causal ambiguity, which helps create competitiveness, is also implicated in competitiveness decay. In this study...

This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about...

This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use...

The paper is done based on a survey on 170 Romanian firms. The results of the questionnaire show that R&D intensity depends on turnover and on geographical location. However, various sector-based R&D intensities are not conclusive (except the under-performing food and beverages industry, and the...

I study the size and scope determinants of innovation rate and quality for a large panel of U.S. manufacturing firms. I employ known indicators of patent quality to show that quality-adjusted patents per dollar of R&D fall with firm size. This finding is in line with previous research, and is...

The different clusters that constitute the regional innovation system overall are slowly evolving. Some of them are getting adapted to the new market demands, at the same time as new ones are appearing. In the analysis of such evolution we will use the international research in the relation...

Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities....