) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by … sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …

Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … important than R&D for innovation, but more important for productivity. These results support the proposition that ICT is an …

) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by … sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …

Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … important than R&D for innovation, but more important for productivity. These results support the proposition that ICT is an …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital …

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … appropriate organizational structures are in place. This article by Surendra Gera of Industry Canada and Wulong Gu of Statistics … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …

process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared with the …

services. They are fundamental as holders and creators of innovation, both technological and organisational. Nevertheless …Knowledge intensive services (KIS) have a key role in the creation and commercialisation of new products, processes and …, little is known about the factors that explain why some firms use more than other these services (technological advice …