This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify the effects of the two main sources of innovation … - internal R&D and external R&D acquisition - on productivity in the manufacturing and service industries. The sample comprises a … regression techniques. Our results suggest the different patterns attributable to the two sources of innovation as we move up …

This paper analyzes the relationship between R&D expenditures, innovation and productivity growth, taking into account … generation of innovations and the impact of these technological outputs on total factor productivity growth. Our results reflect … omission of this persistence leads to an overestimation of the current impact of innovations on productivity growth. However …

The present study analyses the labour market effect of workers' ageing. Explicitly, the impact of age on productivity … and wages, on innovation as well as on mobility is explored empirically. The econometric analyses are based on firm and … productivity and wage effects of age, the econometric results confirm a positive correlation between firm productivity and the …

productivity. In these regressions we included some standard control variables such as wage efficiency, educational level, and … vehicles, and non-electrical machinery have become more efficient in terms of OIs and TIs and thus improved productivity … factors on productivity. Thus, overall SMEs as well as large firms behave similarly in terms of the established relationships …