Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … manufacturing. This paper analyzes whether the three aspects involving innovative activity - R innovative output; and productivity … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … the impact of innovation on employment growth depends on the macroeconomic situation. -- Poland ; services ; innovation …

investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … the impact of innovation on employment growth depends on the macroeconomic situation …

productivity compared to those in less developed countries. However, the development of Korea’s service industry rates poorly …, awareness of the problem of low productivity in the service sector is growing and the issue is naturally attracting policy … attention to service innovation, that is, service R&D investment.In this paper, we analyze the characteristics of R&D investment …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …, increased sales and profits, and product and process innovation than firms that do not follow this path. Their findings suggest …