evidenec that among all industries in the economy industry productivity growth is positively related to R&D intensity and … knowledge spillovers from other industries but negatively related to major restructuring of technology. …

productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … communication had a positive but insignificant impact on firms' labour productivity. On the basis of these observations we make a …Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour …

. What is less well know is that it is information and communications technology (ICT) investment that largely accounts for … this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment in both Canada and the United States and attempts to explain why …It is widely recognized that machinery and equipment investment intensity is less in Canada than in the United States …

countries. He finds that Ireland has experienced a long-term productivity boom over the last 25 years and that the recent … acceleration in per capita GDP reflects an acceleration in employment rate growth, not in productivity growth. The main policy … lessons that Fortin draws from the Irish economic miracle are: support free trade and investment; develop business …

and to estimate the contribution of aggregate input growth and total factor productivity (TFP) growth to income growth …

Italian manufacturing. This is interesting since, as well known, Italy is a "late comer" country and stands as a follower in … manufacturing where traditional sectors and small and medium sized firms prevail, innovative activity is scarce and mainly labour …

manufacturing. The interest stems from the fact that Italy is a “late comer” country, suffers a gap in new technologies and has a … the latter is disaggregated by destination: SBTC mainly runs via process-oriented R&D. Instead, a significant impact of R … incremental process-oriented activities. These results can be easily reconciled with the structural characteristics of Italian …

We analyse the development of labour productivity in five service industries in Europe, the United States, and Japan …. Vis-à-vis a group of peer countries, labour productivity in service industries is relatively low in Finland. We further … the level of labour productivity in European countries. This is also the case if the capital stock is disaggregated into …

this study to gain insight into technological innovation in Canada through the lens of the United States (“U.S.”) patent …In January 2016, the Canadian Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (the “Ministry”) commissioned … lieu of this, we use two massive data sets that we have assembled: (1) a dataset containing detailed information about …

An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper … in manufacturing suppliers. We also find that employment in the economy has been evolving from manufacturing into … supply chain traded services is particularly important to innovation and the economy …