-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …

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 …

attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the innovation-productivity … of equations for innovation expenditures, innovation output, productivity and exports. We use data from the community … innovation surveys for Estonia. We show that innovation is associated with increased productivity in the service sector. The …

attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the innovation-productivity … of equations for innovation expenditures, innovation output, productivity and exports. We use data from the community … innovation surveys for Estonia. We show that innovation is associated with increased productivity in the service sector. The …

There is a large literature on innovation contribution to productivity for EU countries including CEE states. At the …, especially among small firms. Additionally, we allow dynamic two-direction relationship between productivity and innovation input … make our study comparable. The modified CDM model considers not only companies that report formal innovation expenditures …

firm�s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive. …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …

, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …

their relationship to productivity. Our results show that service firms differ considerably in their innovation strategies …, but that most of those strategies lead to productivity gains. -- services ; service innovation ; innovation strategy …Industry - and firm-level research into both innovations and productivity has long been limited to manufacturing. With …