Kox, Henk; Rubalcaba, Luis - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2007
A pervasive trend that characterised the past two decades of European economic growth is that the share in the economy … that in recent decades business services contributed heavily to European economic growth, in terms of employment …, productivity and innovation. A direct growth contribution stems from the business-services sector's own remarkably fast growth …