, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find …, and account for 15%-20% of the variance in firms' growth rates. The direct relation between profitability and firm growth …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities …

, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find …, and account for 15%-20% of the variance in firms' growth rates. The direct relation between profitability and firm growth …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities …

The paper investigates the phenomenon of persistence in innovation and factors that determine it. Using a database of … patent classes. Our calculations did not confirm a theoretical statement that the persistence in innovation rises with the … number of patents that a firm has at the start of the innovation spell («success breeds success»). …

This paper analyzes various innovation strategies of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in … between sixteen innovation strategies, which compose of Schumpeterian 4 types of innovations (process, product, marketing, and … organizational) plus various combinations of these four types. First, we find that firms are not homogenous in choosing innovation …

This paper analyzes various innovation strategies of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in … between sixteen innovation strategies, which compose of Schumpeterian four types of innovations (process, product, marketing … choosing innovation strategies, instead, they have a wide range of preferences when it comes to innovation strategy. Second …

This paper analyses the sources of persistence in conducting R&D activities by SMEs. The data used is a panel of … in R&D activities. In addition, we obtain that persistence in R&D in SMEs is also related to the success … drivers of R&D persistence of SMEs as compared to their larger counterparts. …

networks has allowed the breakdown and delocalisation of many production processes, therefore innovation comprises not only …

technological opportunity and high R&D appropriability, under which opportunities for disruptive innovation are stagnant and the …

This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …

This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …