This paper investigates how a firm’s R&D strategy influences the firm performance as measured by productivity and … productivity firms (lowest quartile) indicating a non-linear response. Moreover, the analysis recognises the different roles of … quantile regressions on the economic model for analyzing the importance for a particular R&D strategy on firms’ productivity …

productivity index with a directional distance function. Unlike a conventional geometric mean form of the Malmquist …-Luenberger productivity index, this global index is circular and free from linear programming (LP) infeasibility. It can also be decomposed … into certain sources of productivity growth such as efficiency change and technical change. The suggested methodology is …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

, employment, productivity and aggregate economic growth. The review shows that the studies that find no positive relationship … between entrepreneurship and productivity growth have studied a relatively short period. Most studies that have studied a …

In general there is agreement about the positive impacts of R&D on performance of firms measured as productivity …

outperformed by domestic multinationals in R&D and innovation engagement. Finally, the results on labor productivity are at … neutral with respect to labor productivity, and hence the issue of welfare gain and welfare drain is turned into a non-issue. …

neutral with respect to labour productivity, and hence that no evidence of welfare gain or welfare drain of foreign ownership …

investment, R&D, productivity and profit. Estimating relationships for 5,289 observations on Swedish manufacturing firms with 50 … between knowledge investments and ordinary investments can be established. Third, R&D has a strong effect on productivity and … productivity is bidirectional, while increased profit leads to more capital but not the vice versa. …

performance from R&D and innovation. A comparison is made between the innovation and productivity of foreign owned enterprises, of … productivity. …