emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is … extensively as a proxy for innovation in the literature. Here, we use a production function approach to estimate the return to R …

This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a … whether or not governments could further foster R&D activities by extending innovation policies to currently not supported … does not uncover any systematic misallocation of public funding for the countries under review. -- Innovation ; Policy …

on the question of the existence of complementarity or complementarity between innovation knowledge sources in small … sources on business performance through the different links in the innovation value chain.This study uses 138 responses from … small South African firms as contained in the Community Innovation Surveys styled fifth national South African innovation …