productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in … manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

This paper investigates whether technological innovation and exports affect the size and productivity of manufacturing … size and productivity, while causality exercises show that innovation and exports imply higher productivity and higher firm … particularly important for the issue under examination. Regression analyses show a positive relation among innovation, exports, and …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms� productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the …' innovation behaviours can be analysed and exploited in order to assess the technological performance of the economy. Three … empirical applications using French data are derived from the previous argument. Our results show first that innovation is …

Motivated by recent statistics that show significant growth in labor productivity, this paper seeks to analyze the … relationship between domestic R&D, knowledge stock and productivity dynamics. Time series data of the German manufacturing industry … conclusion, though the productivity slowdown of the seventies seems to have been overcome, this is not attributed to R …

relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … analysis. Third, stochastic frontier production function and factor productivity analysis are used to estimate the efficiency … and factor productivity growth at the firm level. Fourth, the causal relationships between the five variables of interest …

The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net … contribution of product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …