outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted …

productivity, where in equilibrium the model shows that exporters invest more in innovation, such as research and development (R …This paper investigates how exporting affects firm innovation. We embed innovation into a firm heterogeneity model with … (2003) method of estimating firm productivity and matching econometrics to control for endogeneity. The results show, on …

This paper explores the “black box” of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping …), Thailand, and the Philippines. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm-level exporting … ownership and innovation in increasing the probability of exporting in electronics. Higher levels of skills, managers’ education …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

prioritize enhancing innovation and imitation success over cost reduction to boost productivity growth. … examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity … firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model …

prioritize enhancing innovation and imitation success over cost reduction to boost productivity growth. … examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity … firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model …

knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation …

that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in … than firms that only sell in the domestic market, and, subsequently, have higher rates of productivity growth. The …' productivity growth and incentive to invest in R&D. …