(KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently … KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. One main finding holds that although regional growth has a … negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This result …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress …

-depth analysis of what innovation in KIBS is and its performance outcomes, and then synthesizes what we know about KIBS firms … traits of innovation in KIBS. Then, it progresses our knowledge about KIBS and about how new technologies are offering unique … the traditional limits of innovation in services. While KIBS literature traditionally emphasizes that innovative and …

The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … (KIBS) into manufacturing. Referring to the vertically integrated sectors of an economy allows innovative knowledge, which … is transferred directly and indirectly from KIBS to manufacturing in an embodied way, to be measured. Its impact on …